COVERS
MICROSCOPY
MOVIES
OVERVIEW AND MORE

Mouse embryo (blue) and placenta (white)

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placenta mouse embryo

COVERS

Cell Stem Cell cover, Chen et al., 2025
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2024.06.015
Developmental Cell - Rap1
Developmental Cell cover, Kim et al., 2022
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2022.07.011

MICROSCOPY IMAGES AND CANDIDATE COVERS

Cover candidate for Chandramohan et al.,2026
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2025.11.003
Implanted embryo Maternal decidua (uterus)
Implanting blastocyst Blood vessels (endothelial cells)
Mouse embryo at the blastocyst stage
Cell-cell contacts (tight junctions) Trophectoderm cells

MOVIES

3D biomimetic environment enabling embryo “implantation” in vitro
Mouse embryo and endothelial cells interactions in vitro, in a microfluidic chip (Govindasamy et al, Developmental Cell 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2021.10.014)

In vitro model of the proamniotic cavity formation

Serial block face scanning electron microscopy of mouse pluripotent cells grown in 3D culture conditions. The central lumen and the intermembranous spaces near the lumen are 3D rendered.


Kim et al., Science Advances 2022 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe1640

OVERVIEW AND MORE

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”