The people behind the papers - Taishi Fujimura and Isao Tamura

Abstract

The early stages of human implantation - the process by which an embryo attaches to the endometrial surface - remain poorly understood. In their study, Isao Tamura and colleagues develop a novel mouse endometrial organoid that successfully incorporates both epithelial and stromal cells in their correct polarity within a three-dimensional structure without the need for an extracellular matrix. To find out more about their work, we spoke to the first author, Taishi Fujimura, and the corresponding author, Isao Tamura, Assistant Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.