Extracellular RNA: A new perspective on the human pre-implantation embryos

Jiye Fu; Jing Tu

doi:10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100472

Extracellular RNA: A new perspective on the human pre-implantation embryos

Cell Genom. 2024 Jan 10;4(1):100472. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100472.

Authors

Jiye Fu¹, Jing Tu²

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China. Electronic address: jtu@seu.edu.cn.

Abstract

It is currently a challenge to perform noninvasive molecular biological analysis of in vitro fertilized embryos. In this issue of Cell Genomics, Wu et al.¹ developed a non-invasive method to evaluate human pre-implantation embryos by characterizing the extracellular RNAs in spent media from the culture of in vitro fertilization embryos.

MeSH terms

Embryonic Development* / genetics
Fertilization in Vitro / methods
Humans
RNA* / genetics

Substances

RNA