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Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing. The Economist. Nov 1st 2023
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What is an embryo? Scientists say definition needs to change. Philip Ball. Nature. 18 August 2023
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Modeling the early embryo.. Vivien Marx. Nature Methods. 2022 Jun. PMID: 35668197
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A role model for the human blastocyst..Kim Baumann. Nature Review Molecular Cell Biology. December 14, 2021.
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The making of... human blastoids. Alok Javali, co-inventor of human blastoids. The Node. December 9, 2021.
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Scientists use stem cells to create models of pre-embryos..Laura Ungar. Associated Press. December 3, 2021
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Human embryo models. GB News. December 2021.
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“ISSCR 2021 Day 5”. The stem cell podcast. June 26, 2021.
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Examining the State of the Science of Mammalian Embryo Model Systems. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine of the U.S.A. proceedings. January 2020. The scientific and biomedical perspectives opened by stem cell-based embryo models are discussed, including for blastoids.
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Blastoid: the backstory of the formation of blastocyst-like structure solely from stem cells..The Node. June 27, 2018.
Ep. 118: “Synthetic Embryos” featuring Nicolas Rivron. The Stem cell podcast. June 5, 2018.
Synthetic embryos made from stem cells. BBC World News. Live interview. 3 May 2018.
Discussion about the ethics and applications of the blastoid system.
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Scientists build 'synthetic embryos. BBC News. 3 May 2018.
Scientists have built "synthetic" embryos in their laboratory using mouse cells other than sperm and eggs.
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Artificial embryo created using only stem cells. CNN. 3 May 2018.
Embryo-like structure synthesized in a lab could help decipher infertility.
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Building early embryos. Nature Podcast. 3 May 2018. Discussion with the people from Nature Podcast about the blastoid system.
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Expert reaction to study reporting the development of blastoids..Science media centre. 2 May 2018.
Comments from Prof. Robin Lovell-Badge (The Francis Crick Institute), Dr. Teresa Rayon (The Francis Crick Institute), Dr. Dusko Ilic (King's College London), Dr. Harry Leitch (MRC London institute), and Prof. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz (University of Cambridge).
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Scientists Have Created Synthetic Embryos. Here's What That Could Mean for Humans. Fortune. 3 May 2018.
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Ethicists strike alarm about synthetic embryos: "There are no rules yet". Volkskrant newspaper. 15 Apr 2017
The Volkskrant is a Dutch daily morning newspaper.
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Building organs, block by block. NRC Hasselblad. 12 Nov, 2016 NRC is an internationally oriented daily evening newspaper published in the Netherland.
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Shaping cells to mature together. Science. 15 Apr 2016. Comment by Marc Lavine on our paper Advance Material paper. DOI10.1002/adma.201505723 (2016).