Modeling post-implantation stages of human development into early organogenesis with stem-cell-derived peri-gastruloids

L Liu, S Oura, Z Markham, JN Hamilton, RM Skory, L Li… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
In vitro stem cell models that replicate human gastrulation have been generated, but they
lack the essential extraembryonic cells needed for embryonic development, morphogenesis …

Transgene-free ex utero derivation of a human post-implantation embryo model solely from genetically unmodified naive PSCs

B Oldak, E Wildschutz, V Bondarenko… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Our ability to study early human post-implantation development remains highly limited due
to the ethical and technical challenges associated with intrauterine development of the …

Dissecting peri-implantation development using cultured human embryos and embryo-like assembloids

Z Ai, B Niu, Y Yin, L Xiang, G Shi, K Duan, S Wang… - Cell Research, 2023 - nature.com
Studies of cultured embryos have provided insights into human peri-implantation
development. However, detailed knowledge of peri-implantation lineage development as …

[PDF][PDF] Post-gastrulation synthetic embryos generated ex utero from mouse naive ESCs

S Tarazi, A Aguilera-Castrejon, C Joubran, N Ghanem… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
In vitro cultured stem cells with distinct developmental capacities can contribute to
embryonic or extraembryonic tissues after microinjection into pre-implantation mammalian …

A developmental landscape of 3D-cultured human pre-gastrulation embryos

L Xiang, Y Yin, Y Zheng, Y Ma, Y Li, Z Zhao, J Guo, Z Ai… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Our understanding of how human embryos develop before gastrulation, including spatial
self-organization and cell type ontogeny, remains limited by available two-dimensional …

Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into diverse organ-specific mesenchyme of the digestive and respiratory systems

K Kishimoto, K Iwasawa, A Sorel, C Ferran-Heredia… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Development of visceral organs such as the esophagus, lung, liver and stomach
are coordinated by reciprocal signaling interactions between the endoderm and adjacent …

Bioengineered embryoids mimic post-implantation development in vitro

MU Girgin, N Broguiere, S Hoehnel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The difficulty of studying post-implantation development in mammals has sparked a flurry of
activity to develop in vitro models, termed embryoids, based on self-organizing pluripotent …

[HTML][HTML] 3D gastruloids: a novel frontier in stem cell-based in vitro modeling of mammalian gastrulation

SC van den Brink, A van Oudenaarden - Trends in Cell Biology, 2021 - cell.com
3D gastruloids, aggregates of embryonic stem cells that recapitulate key aspects of gastrula-
stage embryos, have emerged as a powerful tool to study the early stages of mammalian …

Human pre-gastrulation development

SE Wamaitha, KK Niakan - Current topics in developmental biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding the progression of early human embryonic development prior to implantation
is of fundamental biological importance. Greater insights into early developmental events …

Reconstructing aspects of human embryogenesis with pluripotent stem cells

B Sozen, V Jorgensen, BAT Weatherbee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding human development is of fundamental biological and clinical importance.
Despite its significance, mechanisms behind human embryogenesis remain largely …