{"id":108541,"date":"2020-06-11T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-grow-model-human-embryos-from-stem-cells"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T18:25:38","slug":"scientists-grow-model-human-embryos-from-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-grow-model-human-embryos-from-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists grow \u2018model\u2019 human embryos from stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grow-model-human-embryos-from-stem-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paris (AFP) \u2014 Scientists have developed a human embryo \u201cblueprint\u201d using human stem cells, in a breakthrough that could provide vital insight into the early stages of infant development, new research showed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from the University of Cambridge and the Netherlands-based Hubrecht Institute said their model will allow them to observe never-before-seen processes underlying the formation of the human body.<\/p>\n<p>The layout of humans \u2014 known as the body plan \u2014 happens through a process known as gastrulation, where three distinct layers of cells are formed in the embryo that will later give rise to the body\u2019s three main systems: nervous, musculoskeletal and digestive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris (AFP) \u2014 Scientists have developed a human embryo \u201cblueprint\u201d using human stem cells, in a breakthrough that could provide vital insight into the early stages of infant development, new research showed Thursday. Teams from the University of Cambridge and the Netherlands-based Hubrecht Institute said their model will allow them to observe never-before-seen processes underlying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}