How to Use developmental biology in a Sentence

developmental biology

noun
  • 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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