The longest development yet of mouse embryo models outside of the uterus was revealed in a paper in Cell recently, with model embryos kept alive for 8.5 days in vitro (see BioNews 1154).
More papers with similar results are expected to be published in the coming weeks, and the latest developments have prompted discussion about the impact of the latest step in the bid to create embryo models from scratch, in the lab.
Researcher Professor Jacob Hanna from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel was behind the latest finding and he spoke to Medical News Today, along with Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Professor David Glover who both have laboratories at Cambridge University and CalTech and Dr Nicholas Rivron of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna about how we got here and the potential impact of the latest findings.
