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How to build a virtual embryo

Research with human embryos and embryo models, this year’s Method of the Year, can be fraught. In contrast, digital embryos could be studied, even perturbed, in computational what-happens-when experiments.

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Marx, V. How to build a virtual embryo. Nat Methods 20, 1838–1843 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-02094-5

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