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Edited by Peter D. Vize, Adrian S. Woolf, and Jonathan B.L. Bard. 519 pp., illustrated. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 2003. $159.95. ISBN 0-12-722441-6.

Since its publication in 1987, Lauri Saxén's superb monograph Organogenesis of the Kidney (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press) has been the benchmark by which other books in the field have been judged. The past 15 years have witnessed an explosion in our knowledge of how the kidney develops, fueled to no small extent, in particular recently, by advances in comparative genomics and in numerous techniques for genetic manipulation of lower organisms. The molecular and cellular events that characterize kidney development are beginning to be unraveled; functional as well as developmental studies of the kidney in model organisms have been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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