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Breadcrumb Naomi Moris Moris lab Developmental Models Laboratory : Publications Lab contentLab contentIn this section Overview Exhibit at the Royal Society Publications Vacancies Year published2023 (2)2016 (1) Facet Year publishedResearch topicsComputational & Systems Biology (3)Synthetic Biology (3)Chemical Biology & High Throughput (2)Developmental Biology (2)Gene Expression (2)Human Biology & Physiology (2)Stem Cells (2)Biochemistry & Proteomics (1)Cell Biology (1)Cell Cycle & Chromosomes (1)Genome Integrity & Repair (1)Model Organisms (1)Tumour Biology (1) (-)Genetics & Genomics (3) Facet Research topicsPublication typeJournal article (3)Primary research (2)Commentary (1) Facet Publication typeJournalCell Cycle (1)Development (1)Nature Cell Biology (1) Facet Journal Publications Displaying 1 - 20 of 26Last updated : 28 March 2024 03:37 Using embryo models to understand the development and progression of embryonic lineages: a focus on primordial germ cell development Authors (2)Ignacio RodriguezNaomi Moris Cells Tissues Organs Published 13 March 2024 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Vitamin K: missed at peril-the case for extra supplementation to prevent deficiency in breastfed preterm infants Authors (10) Paul Clarke Nicholas D Embleton Mary Fewtrell Dominic J Harrington Anne M KellyNaomi Moris Alexander Patto Vennila Ponnusamy Vimal Vasu Martin J Shearer Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition Published 1 March 2024 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Regulation of long-range BMP gradients and embryonic polarity by propagation of local calcium-firing activity Authors (13) Hyung Chul Lee Nidia MM Oliveira Cato HastingsPeter Baillie-Benson Adam A Moverley Hui-Chun Lu[...] Timothy T Weil Karen M Page Jianping FuNaomi Moris Claudio D Stern Nature Communications Published 17 February 2024 Crick labs/ facilitiesNaomi MorisCell ServicesFull details Changing the public perception of human embryology Authors (15) Nicolas C Rivron Alfonso Martinez-Arias Karen Sermon Christine Mummery Hans R Schöler James Wells[...] Jianping Fu Roger G SturmeyKathy Niakan Janet Rossant Kazuto Kato Nature Cell Biology Published 1 December 2023 Crick labsKathy NiakanNaomi MorisFull details Stem cells used to model a two-week-old human embryo Authors (1)Naomi Moris Nature Published 19 October 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details In preprints: opportunities to unravel the earliest stages of human development using stem cell-based embryo models Authors (2)Naomi Moris Roger Sturmey Development Published 1 September 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details The people behind the papers - Christopher Cooke and Naomi Moris Authors (2) Christopher CookeNaomi Moris Development Published 1 September 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details An ethical framework for human embryology with embryo models Authors (5) Nicolas C Rivron Alfonso Martinez Arias Martin F PeraNaomi Moris Hafez Ismaili M’hamdi Cell Published 17 August 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Gastruloid-derived primordial germ cell-like cells develop dynamically within integrated tissues Authors (5) Christopher B Cooke Christopher BarringtonPeter Baillie-Benson Jennifer NicholsNaomi Moris Development Published 1 September 2023 Crick labs/ facilitiesNaomi MorisBioinformatics and BiostatisticsLight MicroscopyFlow CytometryAdvanced SequencingFull details Technical challenges of studying early human development Authors (3) Peter J Rugg-GunnNaomi Moris Patrick PL Tam Development Published 1 June 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Reconstituting human somitogenesis in vitro Authors (17) Yoshihiro Yamanaka Sofiane Hamidi Kumiko Yoshioka-Kobayashi Sirajam Munira Kazunori Sunadome Yi Zhang[...] Takuya YamamotoNaomi Moris Alfonso Martinez-Arias Taro Tsujimura Cantas Alev Nature Published 16 February 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Unravelling the mysteries of human embryogenesis Authors (2)Naomi Moris Marta Shahbazi Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology Published 1 November 2022 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Gastruloids: Pluripotent stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation and embryo engineering Authors (3) Alfonso Martinez Arias Yusuke MarikawaNaomi Moris Developmental Biology Published 1 August 2022 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Tissue and cell interactions in mammalian PGC development Authors (2) Christopher B CookeNaomi Moris Development Published 1 December 2021 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details In vitro teratogenicity testing using a 3D, embryo-like gastruloid system Authors (6) Veronika MantziouPeter Baillie-Benson Manuela Jaklin Stefan Kustermann Alfonso Martínez AriasNaomi Moris Reproductive Toxicology Published 1 October 2021 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Biomedical and societal impacts of in vitro embryo models of mammalian development Authors (4)Naomi Moris Cantas Alev Martin Pera Alfonso Martinez Arias Stem Cell Reports Published 11 May 2021 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Human gastrulation: The embryo and its models Authors (4) Sabitri Ghimire Veronika MantziouNaomi Moris Alfonso Martinez Arias Developmental Biology Published 1 June 2021 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Experimental embryology of gastrulation: pluripotent stem cells as a new model system Authors (3)Naomi Moris Alfonso Martinez Arias Benjamin Steventon Current Opinion in Genetics and Development Published 1 October 2020 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Pluripotent stem cell models of early mammalian development Authors (3) Peter Baillie-BensonNaomi Moris Alfonso Martinez Arias Current Opinion in Cell Biology Published 1 October 2020 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details An in vitro model of early anteroposterior organization during human development Authors (9)Naomi Moris Kerim Anlas Susanne C van den Brink Anna Alemany Julia Schröder Sabitri Ghimire Tina Balayo Alexander van Oudenaarden Alfonso Martinez Arias Nature Published 18 June 2020 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next Last page Last Share the page Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email
Using embryo models to understand the development and progression of embryonic lineages: a focus on primordial germ cell development Authors (2)Ignacio RodriguezNaomi Moris Cells Tissues Organs Published 13 March 2024 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Vitamin K: missed at peril-the case for extra supplementation to prevent deficiency in breastfed preterm infants Authors (10) Paul Clarke Nicholas D Embleton Mary Fewtrell Dominic J Harrington Anne M KellyNaomi Moris Alexander Patto Vennila Ponnusamy Vimal Vasu Martin J Shearer Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition Published 1 March 2024 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Regulation of long-range BMP gradients and embryonic polarity by propagation of local calcium-firing activity Authors (13) Hyung Chul Lee Nidia MM Oliveira Cato HastingsPeter Baillie-Benson Adam A Moverley Hui-Chun Lu[...] Timothy T Weil Karen M Page Jianping FuNaomi Moris Claudio D Stern Nature Communications Published 17 February 2024 Crick labs/ facilitiesNaomi MorisCell ServicesFull details
Changing the public perception of human embryology Authors (15) Nicolas C Rivron Alfonso Martinez-Arias Karen Sermon Christine Mummery Hans R Schöler James Wells[...] Jianping Fu Roger G SturmeyKathy Niakan Janet Rossant Kazuto Kato Nature Cell Biology Published 1 December 2023 Crick labsKathy NiakanNaomi MorisFull details
Stem cells used to model a two-week-old human embryo Authors (1)Naomi Moris Nature Published 19 October 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
In preprints: opportunities to unravel the earliest stages of human development using stem cell-based embryo models Authors (2)Naomi Moris Roger Sturmey Development Published 1 September 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
The people behind the papers - Christopher Cooke and Naomi Moris Authors (2) Christopher CookeNaomi Moris Development Published 1 September 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
An ethical framework for human embryology with embryo models Authors (5) Nicolas C Rivron Alfonso Martinez Arias Martin F PeraNaomi Moris Hafez Ismaili M’hamdi Cell Published 17 August 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Gastruloid-derived primordial germ cell-like cells develop dynamically within integrated tissues Authors (5) Christopher B Cooke Christopher BarringtonPeter Baillie-Benson Jennifer NicholsNaomi Moris Development Published 1 September 2023 Crick labs/ facilitiesNaomi MorisBioinformatics and BiostatisticsLight MicroscopyFlow CytometryAdvanced SequencingFull details
Technical challenges of studying early human development Authors (3) Peter J Rugg-GunnNaomi Moris Patrick PL Tam Development Published 1 June 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Reconstituting human somitogenesis in vitro Authors (17) Yoshihiro Yamanaka Sofiane Hamidi Kumiko Yoshioka-Kobayashi Sirajam Munira Kazunori Sunadome Yi Zhang[...] Takuya YamamotoNaomi Moris Alfonso Martinez-Arias Taro Tsujimura Cantas Alev Nature Published 16 February 2023 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Unravelling the mysteries of human embryogenesis Authors (2)Naomi Moris Marta Shahbazi Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology Published 1 November 2022 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Gastruloids: Pluripotent stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation and embryo engineering Authors (3) Alfonso Martinez Arias Yusuke MarikawaNaomi Moris Developmental Biology Published 1 August 2022 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Tissue and cell interactions in mammalian PGC development Authors (2) Christopher B CookeNaomi Moris Development Published 1 December 2021 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
In vitro teratogenicity testing using a 3D, embryo-like gastruloid system Authors (6) Veronika MantziouPeter Baillie-Benson Manuela Jaklin Stefan Kustermann Alfonso Martínez AriasNaomi Moris Reproductive Toxicology Published 1 October 2021 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Biomedical and societal impacts of in vitro embryo models of mammalian development Authors (4)Naomi Moris Cantas Alev Martin Pera Alfonso Martinez Arias Stem Cell Reports Published 11 May 2021 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Human gastrulation: The embryo and its models Authors (4) Sabitri Ghimire Veronika MantziouNaomi Moris Alfonso Martinez Arias Developmental Biology Published 1 June 2021 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Experimental embryology of gastrulation: pluripotent stem cells as a new model system Authors (3)Naomi Moris Alfonso Martinez Arias Benjamin Steventon Current Opinion in Genetics and Development Published 1 October 2020 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
Pluripotent stem cell models of early mammalian development Authors (3) Peter Baillie-BensonNaomi Moris Alfonso Martinez Arias Current Opinion in Cell Biology Published 1 October 2020 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details
An in vitro model of early anteroposterior organization during human development Authors (9)Naomi Moris Kerim Anlas Susanne C van den Brink Anna Alemany Julia Schröder Sabitri Ghimire Tina Balayo Alexander van Oudenaarden Alfonso Martinez Arias Nature Published 18 June 2020 Crick labsNaomi MorisFull details