How to Use developmental biology in a Sentence
developmental biology
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By ninth grade Jain was working part-time in a developmental biology lab at Lehigh.
— Erica Westly, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2012 -
For the past 65 years, the focus of developmental biology has been on DNA as the carrier of biological information.
— Adam Rogers, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2018 -
While there is little disagreement about the basic developmental biology, there are sharp differences about the significance.
— New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022 -
The xenobots are turning some conventional views in developmental biology upside down.
— Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021 -
Momentum for new ideas in Alzheimer’s research joined advances in neuroscience, developmental biology and origin-of-life studies to make 2022 a memorable year of biological insights.
— John Rennie, Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022 -
That is why in the evo-devo-eco scheme of things, I am drawn toward developmental biology and its emphasis on understanding physical and chemical structures quantitatively.
— Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2013 -
In recent years, researchers have found evidence for pattern completion in both neural circuits and developmental biology.
— Rafael Yuste, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2021 -
These recent experiments from developmental biology and neuroscience can now provide a common mechanism of how this could work via key nodes that generate pattern completion.
— Rafael Yuste, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2021 -
Fertilization, when a human gets its genome, has become a modern kind of ensoulment, said Scott Gilbert, professor emeritus of biology at Swarthmore College, a co-author of a prominent textbook on developmental biology.
— Bethany Mollenkof, New York Times, 31 May 2022 -
Unfortunately these people are not as common in domains such as developmental biology.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012 -
The creature is often used to study developmental biology and neurodegeneration — the deterioration of nerve cells — in vertebrates.
— Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2014 -
Amazing new technologies in developmental biology and genetics research are allowing scientists to begin to answer long standing questions such as – how does a single fertilized egg cell transform into a complex animal?
— David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022 -
Having obtained a doctorate in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Kansas, Jamal has taught chemistry as an adjunct professor for several area colleges.
— Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 2 Feb. 2018 -
This phyletic gradualism and the scale independence of evolutionary process has been challenged, in particular from the domain of developmental biology (albeit, not all ,or even most, developmental biologists).
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2010 -
Zach double majored in chemical engineering and economics, while Nigel got his degree in molecular, cellular and developmental biology.
— Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021 -
That revolution would extend to developmental biology, to paleontology, even to psychology.
— Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2011
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