19 March 2024
Emulating Embryos
A retinoic acid treatment regimen induces 3D structures of lab-grown human embryonic stem cells (gastruloids) to reliably organise into embryo-like structures, including a neural tube (the start of the central nervous system) and segmented somites
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- Image from work by Nobuhiko Hamazaki and Wei Yang, and colleagues
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in bioRxiv, February 2024 (not peer reviewed)
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