Generation of Human Blastoids from Naive Pluripotent Stem Cells

Abstract

Under certain culture conditions, naive human pluripotent stem cells can generate human blastocyst-like structures (called human blastoids). Human blastoids serve as an accessible model for human blastocysts and are amenable for large-scale production. Here, we describe a detailed step-by-step protocol for the robust and high-efficient generation of human blastoids from naive human pluripotent stem cells.

Keywords: Human blastoids; Human extraembryonic cell types; Human implantation model; Hypoblast cells; Integrated models of human embryos; Naive human pluripotent stem cells; The generation of blastocyst-like structures; Trophoblast cells.