Stem Cell Discovery Sheds Light On Placenta Development

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 18:10 in Biology & Nature

By manipulating a specific gene in a mouse blastocyst -- the structure that develops from a fertilized egg but is not yet an actual embryo -- scientists caused cells destined to build an embryo to instead change direction and build the cell mass that leads to the placenta.

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