{"id":152953,"date":"2022-12-16T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-use-of-hydrogel-materials-leads-to-stem-cells-developing-like-human-embryos"},"modified":"2022-12-16T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:22:29","slug":"scientists-use-of-hydrogel-materials-leads-to-stem-cells-developing-like-human-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-use-of-hydrogel-materials-leads-to-stem-cells-developing-like-human-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Scientists\u2019 use of hydrogel materials leads to stem cells developing like human embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-of-hydrogel-materials-leads-to-stem-cells-developing-like-human-embryos3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials scientists at UNSW Sydney have shown that human pluripotent stem cells in a lab can initiate a process resembling the gastrulation phase\u2014where cells begin differentiating into new cell types\u2014much earlier than occurs in mother nature.<\/p>\n<p>For an embryo developing in the womb, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gastrulation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gastrulation<\/a> occurs at day 14. But in a dish in a lab at UNSW\u2019s Kensington campus, Scientia Associate Professor Kris Kilian oversaw an experiment where a gastrulation-like event was triggered within two days of culturing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human stem cells<\/a> in a unique biomaterial that, as it turned out, set the conditions to mimic this stage of embryo development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGastrulation is the key step that leads to the human body plan,\u201d says A\/Prof. Kilian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials scientists at UNSW Sydney have shown that human pluripotent stem cells in a lab can initiate a process resembling the gastrulation phase\u2014where cells begin differentiating into new cell types\u2014much earlier than occurs in mother nature. For an embryo developing in the womb, gastrulation occurs at day 14. But in a dish in a lab [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152953","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=152953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}