{"id":108593,"date":"2020-06-12T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lab-grown-cells-mimic-crucial-moment-in-embryo-development"},"modified":"2020-06-12T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:02:21","slug":"lab-grown-cells-mimic-crucial-moment-in-embryo-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lab-grown-cells-mimic-crucial-moment-in-embryo-development","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown cells mimic crucial moment in embryo development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-cells-mimic-crucial-moment-in-embryo-development2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Europe have created embryo-like structures that mimic a crucial yet enigmatic stage of human development.<\/p>\n<p>The structures, created from stem cells and called gastruloids, are the first to form a 3D assembly that lays out how the body will take shape. The gastruloids developed rudimentary components of a heart and nervous system, but lacked the components to form a brain and other cell types that would make them capable of becoming a viable fetus.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are creating ever more sophisticated artificial structures to study embryo development in the lab. The latest method for making these structures, published in <i>Nature<\/i> today<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-01757-z#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>, could shed light on the causes of pregnancy loss and early developmental disorders, such as congenital heart conditions and spina bifida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Europe have created embryo-like structures that mimic a crucial yet enigmatic stage of human development. The structures, created from stem cells and called gastruloids, are the first to form a 3D assembly that lays out how the body will take shape. The gastruloids developed rudimentary components of a heart and nervous system, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108593","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}