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Centre for Trophoblast Research

 

Congratulations to Kathy Niakan and Norah Fogarty on their paper in Nature describing the central importance of the gene OCT4 to human embryonic development as shown using CRISPR gene editing of human blastocysts for the first time. Both are former members of the CTR. See https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genome-editing-reveals-role-of-gene-important-for-human-embryo-development