Host: Shamini Bundell
Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, modelling early embryos…
Host: Benjamin Thompson
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Host: Shamini Bundell
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Host: Benjamin Thompson
First up, reporter Nick Howe has been looking into the development of embryos.
Interviewer: Nick Howe
Scientists have got a pretty good idea of what goes on during the nine months of pregnancy, but for the very early stages, like when the embryo implants into the wall of the uterus – the so-called peri-implantation stage – not much is known.
Interviewee: Amander Clark
Implantation of human embryos into the lining of the uterus is a really mysterious process. It’s very difficult to study and this just happens to be the time in embryonic development where the cell types that will ultimately become the adult cells in a body will start to specialise and differentiate, and we know very little about that process in…
