Check out this extremely cool work by @fueyoraquel.bsky.social on how human specific ERVs contribute to early development!
Akanksha Thawani, PhD
Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK.
Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD
Nature - Genetic manipulation of blastoids reveals the role of recently emerged transposable elements and genes in human development.
