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New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development (crick.ac.uk)
34 points by gmays 26 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Pretty cool that they were able to get these to grow to 1.5 cm without collapsing. It's also interesting to note that a lot of the early regulatory factors involved in amnion formation (BMP signaling targets, specifically) overlap with primordial germ cell regulators. In fact germ cells can be co-specified with amnion in another stem cell system (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37426764/)




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