Stem cell embryo model grows yolk sac without hypoblasts or gene editing

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like ...
The Atlantic

They Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?

The little clump of cells looked almost like a human embryo. Created from stem cells, without eggs, sperm, or a womb, the embryo model had a yolk sac and a proto-placenta, resembling a state that real ...
EurekAlert!

Stem cell model of human embryo produces yolk sac without hypoblasts or genetic trickery

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like structure, from a single starting stem cell population and without direct genetic ...
The Scientist

Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models Add a Dimension to Developmental Biology

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...
STAT

6 key dilemmas as human embryo models get ever closer to the real thing

Knoepfler is a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. Researchers are racing to engineer highly realistic human embryo models using stem cells in the lab. Some of ...
Science Daily

Guinea pigs: Promising animal model to study the human embryo

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development. CRCHUM researcher Sophie ...
Asharq Al-Awsat on MSN

KAUST stem cell research advances understanding of early human development

Asharq Al Awsat Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), through the university’s Center of Excellence for Smart Health (KCSH), have developed a new method to improve ...