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Public Library of Science, PLoS Biology, 5(13), p. e1002149, 2015

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002149

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The Renaissance of Developmental Biology

Journal article published in 2015 by Daniel St Johnston ORCID
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Abstract

Since its heyday in the 1980s and 90s, the field of developmental biology has gone into decline; in part because it has been eclipsed by the rise of genomics and stem cell biology, and in part because it has seemed less pertinent in an era with so much focus on translational impact. In this essay, I argue that recent progress in genome-wide analyses and stem cell research, coupled with technological advances in imaging and genome editing, have created the conditions for the renaissance of a new wave of developmental biology with greater translational relevance.