Developing base edited embryos (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Developing base edited embryos

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These microscope images show development of human embryos in the first week after fertilisation. The embryo divides from one cell to a 200-cell structure called a blastocyst. At this stage, 90% of cells will become the placenta, and only 10% will form the epiblast, which later form the body and the yolk sac.

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Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

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