Developmental biology meets with reproductive engineering; interdisciplinary science area as a breakthrough.
It has been postulated many times that different scientific topics and strategies often encounter each other, which create cutting edge research field resulting in further significant progresses of science. This was also a lesson bestowed by Prof. Raymond Wegmann where he created innovative research field for biology, molecular biology and biochemistry-biophysics. Progresses of developmental biology were boosted by molecular biology and reproductive engineering where ES cells and embryonic manipulation are necessary. There are no questions about the utility of their technologies. Reviews on their contributions with respect to the condition of genome manipulation are addressed.
Suzuki
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Center for Animal Resources and Development, Kumamoto University, Honjo 2-2-1, 860-0811, Kumamoto, Japan.
Satoh
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Lei
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Ohta
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Urano
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Nakagata
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Yamada
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D000818:Animals; D002678:Chimera; D015509:Developmental Biology; D005121:Extremities / Q000196:embryology; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D006225:Hand / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D018456:Reproductive Medicine