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What’s next for lab-grown human embryos?

Day 12 human embryo cultured and stained to reveal the Epiblast OCT4 (magenta), the Hypoblast GATA6 (Cyan) and F-Actin (yellow).

A human embryo grown in the laboratory for 12 days, showing cells that will form the embryo itself (magenta). Credit: Antonia Weberling, Bailey Weatherbee, Carlos Gantner and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Nature 597, 22-24 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02343-7

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