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ReviewScience China. Life sciences2025

Stem cell-based embryo models: a tool to study early human development.

Baojiang Wu, Jitesh Neupane, Yang Zhou, Jingcheng Zhang, Yanglin Chen, M Azim Surani, Yong Zhang, Siqin Bao, Xihe Li

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Review in Science China. Life sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Baojiang Wu *The State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010020, China.
Jitesh Neupane *The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QN, UK.
Yang Zhou *The State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010020, China.
Jingcheng ZhangKey Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.
Yanglin ChenThe State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010020, China.
M Azim SuraniThe Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QN, UK.
Yong ZhangKey Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China. zhy1956@263.net.
Siqin BaoThe State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010020, China. baosq@imu.edu.cn.
Xihe LiThe State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010020, China. lixh@imu.edu.cn.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How a mammalian fertilized egg acquires totipotency and develops into a full-term offspring is a fundamental scientific question. Human embryonic development is difficult to study due to limited resources, technical challenges and ethics. Moreover, the precise regulatory mechanism underlying early human embryonic development remains unknown. In recent years, the emergence of stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEM) provides the opportunity to reconstitute pre- to post-implantation development in vitro. These models to some extent mimic the embryo morphologically and transcriptionally, and thus may be used to study key events in mammalian pre- and post-implantation development. Many groups have successfully generated SCBEM of the mouse and human. Here, we provide a comparative review of the mouse and human SCBEM, discuss the capability of these models to mimic natural embryos and give a perspective on their potential future applications.

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Embryo, MammalianEmbryonic DevelopmentEmbryonic Stem CellsModels, BiologicalAnimalsHumansMiceblastoidembryo modelgastruloidprimordial germ cellstem cell

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