Frontiers in Plant Biology

New frontiers in plant female reproductive biology

Frontiers of plant cell biology: signals and pathways, system-based approaches 22nd Symposium in Plant Biology (University of California--Riverside).

The 22nd Symposium in Plant Biology (January 15th to 18th, 2003) hosted by the University of California—Riverside (UCR) focused on systems-based approaches to plant cell biology research. The symposium speakers and over 130 posters placed emphasis on recent developments in plant cellular biology and molecular genetics, particularly those employing emerging genomic tools. One of the highlights o...

New Frontiers for Organismal Biology

June 2013 / Vol. 63 No. 6 www.biosciencemag.org have generated extensive fundamental knowledge that now has us superbly positioned for “returning to the organism” (Stillman et al. 2011). The challenge is to extend, integrate, and exploit the insights from “outward” and “inward” gene-oriented biology to develop a deeper understanding of individual organisms’ higher-order emergent characteristics...

Frontiers of optofluidics in synthetic biology.

The development of optofluidic-based technology has ushered in a new era of lab-on-a-chip functionality, including miniaturization of biomedical devices, enhanced sensitivity for molecular detection, and multiplexing of optical measurements. While having great potential, optofluidic devices have only begun to be exploited in many biotechnological applications. Here, we highlight the potential o...

Developmental biology: frontiers for clinical genetics.

Teeth arise from sequential and reciprocal interactions between the oral epithelium and the cranial neural crest-derived mesenchyme. Their formation involves a precisely orchestrated series of molecular and morphogenetic events. Numerous regulatory genes that have been primarily found in organisms such as Drosophila, zebrafish, xenopus and mouse are associated with all stages of tooth formation...