TY - JOUR AU - Li, Fei PY - 2016 TI - Culturing human embryos beyond blastulation: Pushing the limits and exploring the unexplored JO - Genes & Diseases SN - 2352-4820 SP - 165 EP - 166 VL - 3 IS - 3 AB - Two articles recently published in Nature and Nature Cell Biology reported that early human embryos were successfully cultured beyond blastulation. This development heralds an important step toward exploring the unknown molecular events driving human pre-gastrulation development, but it inevitably raises the ante in the decades-old ethical debate on how to define early human life and how to save human lives through research without destroying another life in the process. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2016.07.002 DO - 10.1016/j.gendis.2016.07.002