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Jan 4, 2025

Building a backbone: scientists recreate the body’s ‘GPS system’ in the lab

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Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have generated human stem cell models1 which, for the first time, contain notochord – a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, directing cells where to build the spine and nervous system (the trunk).

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