Unlike organoids, which model parts of single organs, the duo coaxed aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells to carry out fundamental processes of development to become embryo-like entities, or ...

They’ve also shown that the application of the protein BMP4 causes these embryo models, called embryoids, to break symmetry, or go from a round ball to a structure with front and back ends. How the ...

Physical cues in the womb, and not just genetics, influence the normal development of neural crest cells, the embryonic stem cells that form facial features, finds a new study led by UCL ...