Two recent papers have detailed the longest development yet of mouse embryo models outside of the uterus (see BioNews 1154 and 1156). The breakthrough studies, published in Cell and Nature both kept model embryos alive for 8.5 days in vitro.
PET's Hannah Flynn, who is the science editor of BioNews, spoke to the key players for her article published in Medical News Today.
Professor Jacob Hanna from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel was behind the Cell paper, and Nature paper co-authors Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Professor David Glover who have laboratories at Cambridge University and CalTech.
