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José Silva & Lab

@josesilvalab.bsky.social
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Reprogramming cells for fun and to create embryo models in the tropical Greater Bay Area www.jose-silva-lab.com 🇵🇹🇨🇳🇬🇧 Guangzhou/Cantāo 🌴☀️, China中国

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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Congratulations Alex!
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Alex Radzisheuskaya @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1/ Very excited to share the first publication from my lab! In this work, we developed an efficient strategy to precisely mutate mammalian histone genes in their native genomic context using CRISPR prime editing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature Genetics
This study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combinat...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our latest: Minimal essential requirements for neural tube self-organisation How does a single cell give rise to a tissue with the right cell types in the right proportions? We deconstruct and rebuild a self-organising tissue from first principles A thread🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Minimal essential requirements for neural tube self-organisation
The reliable generation of diverse cell types in precise proportions is essential for the formation of functional tissues during embryonic development. Three-dimensional organoid models derived from p...
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
To us, this was both unexpected and very interesting.
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In our case, we successfully obtained embryo-like structures; however, although the cells were reprogrammed to an earlier developmental stage, they did not appear to generate precursors. Instead, they transitioned directly into the various early embryonic fates.
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thank you for the comment and question. We think that if we can reprogram cells into precursors of all embryonic lineages, they should then be able to self-organize into an embryo model.
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Cell Stem Cell @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Online Now! Signaling reprogramming via Stat3 activation unravels high-fidelity human post-implantation embryo modeling #stemcells
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Signaling reprogramming via Stat3 activation unravels high-fidelity human post-implantation embryo modeling
Enhanced STAT3 activation combined with TGF-β inhibition reprograms human PSCs into cells specifying all early embryonic lineages. Upon 3D suspension culture, these cells self-organize within 6 days into post-implantation structures mimicking Carnegie stages 5–7 embryos, including gastrulation, with high morphological and molecular fidelity.
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(8/8) Our v1.0, limitations remain (see Limitations section), but we hope, alongside other models, it can help advance human embryogenesis research. Visit the lab website for free access to our study (under publications section)
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(7/8) There’s more inside: signaling landscapes, PGCs, primary-to-secondary yolk sac transition…
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(6/8) The molecular signatures show strong alignment and high identity scores with human embryo references.
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(5/8) ….And they keep going, entering gastrulation!
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(4/8) If these cells can generate all early fates, then they should be able to do so in a self-organized manner, forming embryo-like structures……. and they did! (All we had to do was sit back and let the cells do their work.)
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(3/8) The results went beyond expectations: alongside naïve epi, TE & hypoblast, we also saw extraembryonic mesoderm emerge 🤯
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(2/8) From our work in the mouse system we hypothesised that STAT3 could reprogram human cells from a post- to a pre-implantation fate, but the breakthrough came only after we also added TGFβ inhibition.
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(1/8) Very Happy to share our lab’s 3D post-implantation human embryo model, made via signalling reprograming! 🙌 Huge thanks to the entire team and our collaborators, special shout-out to @cc0447.bsky.social (led the work) and @jinjin-0101.bsky.social (comp. analysis). www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
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Signaling reprogramming via Stat3 activation unravels high-fidelity human post-implantation embryo modeling
Enhanced STAT3 activation combined with TGF-β inhibition reprograms human PSCs into cells specifying all early embryonic lineages. Upon 3D suspension culture, these cells self-organize within 6 days i...
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
(3/3) Fast forward ⏩ @cc0447.bsky.social Jinyi Wu et al. investigated this in human cells. Curious to see what they pulled off? Stay tuned!
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
(2/3) … this was actually a side finding in that study🙃 www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... However, we thought this could be paralleling early embryo development and have since been exploring it to generate embryo models.
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Distinct Molecular Trajectories Converge to Induce Naive Pluripotency
Stuart et al. report distinct routes of reprogramming to naive pluripotency. These differ in their transcriptional trajectories, mechanistic requirements, and developmental parallels, thus demonstrati...
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
(1/3) A while back, my then-PhD student @htstuart.bsky.social stumbled on a finding that changed our lab’s direction 👀✨. Turns out, STAT3 mediated reprogramming generates intermediates (Gata6GFP+ cells) going through an earlier developmental stage with increased developmental potential 🚀
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I believe they will, but we’re not there yet.
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Stem Cell Podcast @stemcellpodcast.com · 26/08/2025
💓 Researchers in the @josesilvalab.bsky.social used #SmallMolecules to convert mouse ESCs into embryo founder cells, which generated a complete embryo model! Article: bit.ly/4orpbLb Episode with discussion: bit.ly/4oTURt2
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Stylianos Lefkopoulos (he/him) @slefkopoulos.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🥂Congrats to Gao, Li & co for their new @natcellbio.nature.com study: they derive #trophectoderm stem cells from 32-cell mouse #embryos. These cells represent an early trophectoderm state, develop into #placenta cells and organoids and contribute to blastoid generation. rdcu.be/eAKzp bit.ly/4fyZ9Sg
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Mouse trophectoderm stem cells generated with morula signalling inducers capture an early trophectoderm state - Nature Cell Biology
Gao, Li and colleagues derive trophectoderm stem cells from 32-cell mouse embryos. These cells represent an early trophectoderm state and are capable of developing into placenta cells, forming placent...
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Capturing early TE stem cells. From Zhang Jian’s lab, “Mouse trophectoderm stem cells generated with morula signalling inducers capture an early trophectoderm state”, with a small contribution from us. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mouse trophectoderm stem cells generated with morula signalling inducers capture an early trophectoderm state - Nature Cell Biology
Gao, Li and colleagues derive trophectoderm stem cells from 32-cell mouse embryos. These cells represent an early trophectoderm state and are capable of developing into placenta cells, forming placent...
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you so much Alex!
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A big thanks to all authors, especially Professor Naihe Jing and Penglei Shen for guiding our embryo model into organogenesis, and to our PhD students Jiahui Huang and Wei Guan for their efforts. And of course, to Huanhuan Li, the driving force behind this work.( 3/3)
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Starting from PSCs, a brief reprogramming step gives rise to “embryo founder-like cells” (EFCs). EFCs segregate embryonic and extraembryonic lineages and self-organize to closely mirror natural embryo development, both morphologically and at the molecular level. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Very happy to share the work of Huanhuan Li et al. While not a natural embryo, you might not have known that if I hadn’t told you. (1/3)
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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Join the VGZT Eastern KEYNOTE lecture ☀️☕ TOMORROW 🗓️ Wednesday July 09 ⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET Featuring: 1) Maithreyi Narasimha 👉Positioning tissues during Drosophila morphogenesis Jose Silva @josesilvalab.bsky.social 👉From founder cells to organogenesis-stage embryo model
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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Thank you VGZT community for your active participation 🌎 See below the session flyers for the rest of the season: 🌞 Eastern sessions: Happening on Wednesdays. Our keynote for this season: Maithreyi Narasimha and @josesilvalab.bsky.social [1/2]
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Very grateful to the @lundstem.bsky.social and Filipe Pereira for hosting me. I truly enjoyed meeting and discussing with many colleagues at the Center. I also received very interesting feedback that will hopefully lead to collaborations and help further improve our embryo models.
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
An interesting study characterising human embryo gastrulation! rdcu.be/d5VmN
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Spatial transcriptomic characterization of a Carnegie stage 7 human embryo
Nature Cell Biology - Guo and colleagues characterize an intact Carnegie stage 7 human embryo at single-cell resolution in a spatially resolved manner.
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José Silva & Lab @josesilvalab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Many congratulations Amanda!!!!
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