Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Dev Cell. 2019 Jul 22;50(2):132-137. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.07.006.
Humans have sought to understand the embryo for millennia. Paradoxically, even as technical and intellectual innovations bring us ever closer to a transformative understanding of developmental biology, our discipline faces an "image problem." We should face this problem by acknowledging that developmental biology is fundamental to the human experience.
人类数千年来一直试图了解胚胎。具有讽刺意味的是,尽管技术和知识创新使我们越来越接近于对发育生物学的变革性理解,但我们的学科面临着“形象问题”。我们应该承认,发育生物学是人类体验的基础,从而正视这个问题。