Sharper Insight. Smarter Selection. Stronger Beginnings.
Doubling live births, halving miscarriages, and reducing IVF costs by a third — giving every embryo, and every family, a better chance at life.
PARTNERS
We are committed to advancing ethically responsible, scientifically rigorous research hand in hand with the clinical community. Our long-standing partnerships with CARE Fertility, Herts & Essex Fertility Centre, and King’s Fertility, led by Prof. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, have already delivered groundbreaking discoveries that are redefining our understanding of early human development.
We are deeply grateful to our partner clinics and patients who decided to donate their embryos to our research. By working closely together and fostering open communication, we can drive transformative change for patients while unlocking deeper insights into human development.
COLLABORATION
We warmly welcome new collaborations with IVF clinics, gamete banks, and research centers. By building open, trusted relationships and sharing expertise, we can co-create innovative solutions that not only advance science but also directly respond to the needs of patients and our clinical partners. Together, we can achieve more than any one of us could alone. We believe in creating mutually enriching partnerships and are excited to provide:
• Journal club talks
• Rotational days at BRC
• Short research projects for trainee embryologists
If your clinic is curious to explore collaboration options, we would love to hear from you - please complete form to express interest:
PUBLICATIONS
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Weatherbee, B. A. T., Weberling, A., Gantner, C. W., Iwamoto-Stohl, L. K., Barnikel, Z., Barrie, A., Campbell, A., Cunningham, P., Drezet, C., Efstathiou, P., Fishel, S., Vindel, S. G., Lockwood, M., Oakley, R., Pretty, C., Chowdhury, N., Richardson, L., Mania, A., Weavers, L., Christie, L., … Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2024). Distinct pathways drive anterior hypoblast specification in the implanting human embryo. Nature cell biology, 26(3), 353–365. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-024-01367-1
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Junyent, S., Meglicki, M., Vetter, R., Mandelbaum, R., King, C., Patel, E. M., Iwamoto-Stohl, L., Reynell, C., Chen, D. Y., Rubino, P., Arrach, N., Paulson, R. J., Iber, D., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2024). The first two blastomeres contribute unequally to the human embryo. Cell, 187(11), 2838–2854.e17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.04.029
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Iwamoto-Stohl, L. K., Petelski, A. A., Meglicki, M., Fu, A., Khan, S., Specht, H., Huffman, G., Derks, J., Jorgensen, V., Weatherbee, B. A. T., Weberling, A., Gantner, C. W., Mandelbaum, R. S., Paulson, R. J., Lam, L., Ahmady, A., Vasquez, E. S., Slavov, N., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2024). Proteome asymmetry in mouse and human embryos before fate specification. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.08.26.609777. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.26.609777
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Molè, M. A., Weberling, A., Fässler, R., Campbell, A., Fishel, S., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2021). Integrin β1 coordinates survival and morphogenesis of the embryonic lineage upon implantation and pluripotency transition. Cell reports, 34(10), 108834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108834
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Molè, M. A., Weberling, A., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2020). Comparative analysis of human and mouse development: From zygote to pre-gastrulation. Current topics in developmental biology, 136, 113–138. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2019.10.002
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Shahbazi, M. N., Wang, T., Tao, X., Weatherbee, B. A. T., Sun, L., Zhan, Y., Keller, L., Smith, G. D., Pellicer, A., Scott, R. T., Jr, Seli, E., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2020). Developmental potential of aneuploid human embryos cultured beyond implantation. Nature communications, 11(1), 3987. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17764-7
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Shahbazi, M. N., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2018). Deconstructing and reconstructing the mouse and human early embryo. Nature cell biology, 20(8), 878–887. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-018-0144-x
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Shahbazi, M. N., Scialdone, A., Skorupska, N., Weberling, A., Recher, G., Zhu, M., Jedrusik, A., Devito, L. G., Noli, L., Macaulay, I. C., Buecker, C., Khalaf, Y., Ilic, D., Voet, T., Marioni, J. C., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2017). Pluripotent state transitions coordinate morphogenesis in mouse and human embryos. Nature, 552(7684), 239–243. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24675
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Shahbazi, M. N., Jedrusik, A., Vuoristo, S., Recher, G., Hupalowska, A., Bolton, V., Fogarty, N. N. M., Campbell, A., Devito, L., Ilic, D., Khalaf, Y., Niakan, K. K., Fishel, S., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2016). Self-organization of the human embryo in the absence of maternal tissues. Nature cell biology, 18(6), 700–708. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3347
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Deglincerti, A., Croft, G. F., Pietila, L. N., Zernicka-Goetz, M., Siggia, E. D., & Brivanlou, A. H. (2016). Self-organization of the in vitro attached human embryo. Nature, 533(7602), 251–254. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17948