by rss feed | Mar 21, 2021 | blastoids, Blog, Cell Stem Cell, embryo engineering, embryos, News Feeds, organoids
This was an unusual week in that three papers in a sense collided together related to embryo production and growth, raising new research possibilities but also serious ethical questions. New research: what is an embryo & what is not? The first two Nature papers...
by rss feed | Mar 17, 2021 | blastoids, Blog, human embryo research, human embryonic stem cells, News Feeds, synthetic embryos
A new word has been added to the lexicon of human stem cell research – blastoids, aka “blastocyst-like structures.” Unlike the familiar three-layered embryo that emerges during the third week of prenatal development, the earlier blastocyst resembles a fluid-filled...
