Human blastoids 3.0

Viviane S Rosa; Marta N Shahbazi

doi:10.1016/j.stem.2021.12.006

Human blastoids 3.0

Cell Stem Cell. 2022 Jan 6;29(1):8-10. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2021.12.006.

Authors

Viviane S Rosa¹, Marta N Shahbazi²

Affiliations

¹ MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
² MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. Electronic address: mshahbazi@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.

PMID: 34995497
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2021.12.006

Abstract

Studying human embryo development is technically and ethically challenging. An improved protocol to generate human embryo-like structures (blastoids) from human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) (Kagawa et al., 2021) offers innovative opportunities to dissect the mechanisms of human embryogenesis.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Embryo, Mammalian
Embryonic Development
Humans
Pluripotent Stem Cells*

Grants and funding

MC_UP_1201/24/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom