New Technique Reveals Protein Production in Early Embryos

July 5, 2023 • by Marc Airhart

The earliest stages of developing life have been, in many ways, a black box for researchers before now.

Microscope image of a blastoid, a model of an early stage embryo

A human blastoid is an embryo model formed from stem cells that laboratories have used to study the processes of early embryo development. A new technology from UT Austin scientists, called Ribo-ITP, allows for a new way of studying early embryos and single cells as never before. Image licensed via Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Credit: Nicolas Rivron, WikiMedia.


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