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Bovine blastocyst like structures derived from stem cell cultures

Pinzón-Arteaga CA, Wang Y, Wei Y, Li L, Ribeiro Orsi AE, Scatolin G, Liu L, Sakurai M, Ye J, Yu L, Li B, Jiang Z, Wu J.
Preprint from
bioRxiv
21 December 2022
PPR
PPR587412
Abstract
Understanding blastocyst formation and implantation is critical for improving farm animal reproduction but is hampered by a limited supply of embryos. We developed an efficient method to generate bovine blastocyst-like structures (termed blastoids) via the assembly of trophoblast stem cells and expanded potential stem cells. Bovine blastoids resemble blastocysts in morphology, cell composition, single-cell transcriptomes, and represent an accessible in vitro model for studying bovine embryogenesis.