title: The renaissance of developmental biology.
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.
authors.affiliation: The Gurdon Institute and The Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: St Johnston
mesh_terms: D015509:Developmental Biology / Q000639:trends*; D023281:Genomics / Q000639:trends; D057905:Stem Cell Research