Sentences with phrase «forming embryonic structures»

Setton and her group backtracked, devising a series of steps to first produce one of the earliest - forming embryonic structures, the notochord.

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In June Italian scientists announced the first human embryonic stem cells derived from parthenotes — embryo - like structures formed when an egg starts to divide on its own, with no sperm involved.

They tried hundreds of different recipes; eventually they discovered that if they mixed liver precursor cells (derived from iPS cells) with two other types of standard human cell lines known to be important for embryonic liver development, then the cells would spontaneously form a 4 to 5 - millimeter 3D structure called a liver bud.

Similarly, EFTF - expressing pluripotent cells formed ectopic eye - like structures when transplanted to the embryonic flank.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have managed to reconstruct the early stage of mammalian development using embryonic stem cells, showing that a critical mass of cells — not too few, but not too many — is needed for the cells to being self - organising into the correct structure for an embryo to form.

Within this elementary biological structure, three types of cells begin to cluster and develop: the embryonic stem cells (which eventually become the body of the embryo), and two extra-embryonic types of cells - the trophoblast stem cells (which develop into the placenta) and the endoderm stem cells (which go on to form the yolk sac).