“Even just to understand the genesis of human being itself... It must be one of the holy grails of modern biology.”

We return this week with an episode recorded during lockdown.

Professor Jianping Fu, a professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical engineering and Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan, is interviewed by PhD student Sergi Junyent. He talks about the technical difficulties and ethical issues of studying human development. He discusses the growing field of stem cell based embryo models to study the early stages of development and the future directions of these models.

For more information on Jianping's research follow this link: http://me-web.engin.umich.edu/ibbl/