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Developmental Biology
Growing Embryonic Tissues Outside the Body
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Explant culture lets living embryonic tissue continue developing outside the body. Researchers remove cells or tissues from an embryo and grow them ex vivo, which means outside the organism. This setup makes it possible to watch and control developing tissues in ways that are not possible in vivo, or inside the organism.
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Explant culture is a technique in which whole tissues and organs are removed, or "explanted," from a fetus or embryo and are cultured out of the body, or "ex vivo." These methods provide a unique window to help us understand the process of development by enabling direct observations of organ and tissue growth-a proc...
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