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
• The xenobots are turning some conventional views in developmental biology upside down.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021
• Hox genes are in developmental biology associated with complex body plans.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• In recent years, researchers have found evidence for pattern completion in both neural circuits and developmental biology.
  — Rafael Yuste, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2021
• While there is little disagreement about the basic developmental biology, there are sharp differences about the significance.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Unfortunately these people are not as common in domains such as developmental biology.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
• Researchers in cancer and developmental biology were already studying this gene because its over-expression in neuroendocrine tissues led to tumors in various mammals.
  — Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
• 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
• Whether human embryos are human beings is a question resolved by human embryology and developmental biology.
  — Robert P. George, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
• Jeffrey Maloy, an associate professor of teaching in molecular cell and developmental biology, voted no on both motions.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
• Mammalian diversity in a dish Researchers have traditionally used organoids to model human diseases, test drugs and study developmental biology.
  — Gat Rauner, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Chapman, who was not involved in the research, studies bird evolution using paleontology and developmental biology.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
• The creature is often used to study developmental biology and neurodegeneration — the deterioration of nerve cells — in vertebrates.
  — Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2014
• 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
• 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
• And that’s probably most beautifully demonstrated in the field of developmental biology, and particularly the process of morphogenesis.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
• The niche subspecialty demands delicate hands, unflappable focus, and a nuanced understanding of developmental biology.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• That revolution would extend to developmental biology, to paleontology, even to psychology.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2011
• 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
• 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
• Oncology isn’t the only field in pursuit of valuable information about single rare cells—fields including developmental biology, immunology, stem cell biology, neuroscience, and infectious disease all require studying individual cells.
  — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
• Perhaps another Asgard with similar tubulin genes but a quicker life cycle will turn up, said Tom Pollard, a professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University who studies cell division.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
• Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences rescued FlyBase with interim funding, but that support will cease in October, according to Norbert Perrimon, a professor of developmental biology at Harvard Medical School.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025