Fabulous (vegan!) lab lunch with this amazing team 🤩 Merry Christmas everyone! 🥂

Happy to share our paper on in vitro human somitogenesis nature tinyurl.com/axioloids Fantastic effort of Yoshihiro Yamanaka Sofiane Hamidi Kumiko YOSHIOKA-KOBAYASHI and others in Alev Lab WPI-ASHBi. Many thx to awesome collaborators in Japan & abroad Dr Naomi Moris Alfonso Martinez Arias! #axioloids

Gastruloids out in wild in Japan 😀

What a flurry of excitement #ISSCR2023 ! As exciting as the recent preprints are, let’s be clear: these are not the first human embryo-like models and they won’t be the last. They are also not embryos. Like any model, they are only as good as the questions we ask of them! (1/3)

I’m delighted to share our latest publication from Moris Lab on the derivation of mouse PGC-like cells in gastruloids. Thanks to Chris (Martinez Arias lab, GeneticsCambridge, Abcam) & Jenny (The University of Edinburgh) for their work in Cambridge, which followed us to The Francis Crick Institute! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/do…

Is there a better way to make PGCs in culture than with disorganised EBs and signalling cocktails? In our latest pub Development we show that mouse 'gastruloids' make beautiful PGCs... 😍 [as also seen by others] (1/6) doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…

VERY excited to announce that we're going to be hosting a flagship exhibit at the The Royal Society #summerscience exhibition on the topic of #embryomodels !! 🗓️2-7th July 2024 📍London

It’s THIS week!!! Reminder that we’ll be showcasing an exhibit on #embryomodels all week at the Royal Society in London. 🚩 ⏰ There are evening events if you want to pop in after work, and the weekend if you want to bring the whole family. And it’s free too! 🙌

Come and visit the The Royal Society summer exhibit, including a station on Embryo Models! Chat with myself and my former colleagues The Francis Crick Institute and participate in fun interactive activities! royalsociety.org/science-events…

Have you ever wondered how your back formed? The human embryo makes a neural tube (future spinal cord) and somites (trunk muscle/bone) from ~d20. They’re formed at the same time and place, so we used human Trunk-like Structures (hTLS) to investigate their ‘co-development’… (1/7)