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SUBMITTER: Tyser RCV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7615353 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tyser Richard C V RCV Mahammadov Elmir E Nakanoh Shota S Vallier Ludovic L Scialdone Antonio A Srinivas Shankar S
Nature 20211117 7888
Gastrulation is the fundamental process in all multicellular animals through which the basic body plan is first laid down<sup>1-4</sup>. It is pivotal in generating cellular diversity coordinated with spatial patterning. In humans, gastrulation occurs in the third week after fertilization. Our understanding of this process in humans is relatively limited and based primarily on historical specimens<sup>5-8</sup>, experimental models<sup>9-12</sup> or, more recently, in vitro cultured samples<sup> ...[more]