The early stages of human development are normally hidden within the womb, but improved techniques for culturing embryos from the blastocyst stage promise to make these steps easier to investigate. See Letter p.251
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Rossant, J. Implantation barrier overcome. Nature 533, 182–183 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17894
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