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Making waves: the rise and fall and rise of quantitative developmental biology
1Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. lad43@pitt.edu
Abstract:
The tenth annual RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology symposium 'Quantitative Developmental Biology' held in March 2012 covered a range of topics from coat colour patterning to the mechanics of morphogenesis. The studies presented shared a common theme in which a combination of physical theory, quantitative analysis and experiment was used to understand a specific cellular process in development. This report highlights these innovative studies and the long-standing questions in developmental biology that they seek to answer.
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