Asynchronous mouse embryo polarization leads to heterogeneity in cell fate specification
Adiyant Lamba, Meng Zhu, Maciej Meglicki, Sylwia M. Czukiewska, Lakshmi Balasubramaniam, Ron Hadas, Nina Weishaupt, Ekta M Patel, Yu Hua Kavanagh, Ran Wang, Naihe Jing, Magdalena Zernicka‐Goetz
The paper shows that asynchronous polarization in mouse embryos leads to heterogeneity in cell fate specification, linking early 4-cell stage asymmetries to later 8-cell stage lineage decisions.
eLife · Dec 8, 2025Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology