Three‐dimensional stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation

DA Turner, A Martinez Arias - BioEssays, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Gastrulation is a key milestone in the development of an organism. It is a period of cell
proliferation and coordinated cellular rearrangement, that creates an outline of the body …

Retinoid-enhanced human gastruloids

A Schauer, JV Veenvliet - Nature Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Hidden by the womb, early human development remains cloaked in mystery. To unveil
developmental processes in health and disease, pluripotent stem cells can be coaxed into …

Mapping mouse axial progenitor dynamics in vitro

Y Miao, O Pourquié - Developmental Cell, 2024 - Elsevier
In this issue of Developmental Cell, Bolondi et al. systematically assesses neuro-
mesodermal progenitor (NMP) dynamics by combining a mouse stem-cell-based embryo …

Inferring cell differentiation maps from lineage tracing data

P Sashittal, R Zhang, B Law, A Strzalkowski, H Schmidt… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
During development, mulitpotent cells differentiate through a hierarchy of increasingly
restricted progenitor cell types until they realize specialized cell types. A cell differentiation …

Reporter CRISPR screens decipher cis-and trans-regulatory principles at the Xist locus

T Schwaemmle, G Noviello, E Kanata, JJ Froehlich… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Developmental genes are controlled by an ensemble of cis-acting regulatory elements
(REs), which in turn respond to multiple trans-acting transcription factors (TFs) …