Biological Industries Blog How a 300m gastruloid can shed light on human development

Gastrulation is an early stage in fetal development, occurring two weeks after conception. During gastrulation, the fetus (or blastula, to be exact), which until then had been a hollow single-layered sphere of cells, develops into a three-layered cell structure known as a gastrula. (Figure 1) Figure 1: Gastrulation. A diagram of the transformation from a [...]The post How a 300µm gastruloid can shed light on human development appeared first on Biological Industries.