Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
A new dataset, combining information on cell position and gene expression from an early human embryo, has been made available as a reference for scientists investigating human development...
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