Human 8-cell-like cells discovered.

Balaton, Bradley P; Pasque, Vincent · Cell Stem Cell · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Human naive pluripotent stem cells have the remarkable ability to generate blastoids comprising trophectoderm, epiblast, and hypoblast-like cells. In this issue, Taubenschmid-Stowers et al. (2022) show that human naive pluripotent stem cell cultures contain cells that resemble the 8-cell human embryo, providing a model to study zygotic genome activation.

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