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Engineered models of the human embryo

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Embryo models built from stem cells promise to shed light on human development.

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Fig. 1: Comparison of early human development in vivo, ex vivo and in blastoid models in vitro.

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  1. Clínica Eugin, Barcelona, Spain

    Mina Popovic & Felicitas Azpiroz

  2. CEGyR Medicina y Genética Reproductiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Felicitas Azpiroz

  3. Ghent Fertility and Stem cell Team (G-FaST), Department for Reproductive Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

    Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes

  4. Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

    Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes

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Popovic, M., Azpiroz, F. & Chuva de Sousa Lopes, S.M. Engineered models of the human embryo. Nat Biotechnol 39, 918–920 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01004-4

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