Scientists in Israel have grown synthetic embryo models of mice outside the womb by starting solely with stem cells cultured in a petri dish - that is, without the use of fertilised eggs. The team ...

For the first time, a team of stem cell researchers in Israel have created mouse embryos in the lab without using any eggs or sperm and watched them grow outside the womb. The successful ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. It is allowing people to do biochemistry with mammalian embryos that they couldn’t do otherwise. After a sperm fertilizes an egg, the totipotent ...

Jacob Hanna, a stem cell biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, wanted to know why this transition occurs. To answer this question, Hanna and his team set out to develop an ex utero embryo ...

Using zebrafish embryos and a synthetic embryonic explant system, we are beginning to identify molecules that are both necessary and sufficient for axial extension downstream of early embryonic ...

We will use organoids and synthetic stem cell-derived embryo models to rapidly characterize circuit designs in cellular conditions that mimic organismal contexts, before ultimately testing our designs ...