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What is a blastocyst?

What is a blastocyst? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) The mammalian blastula
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The blastocyst forms into a hollow ball that implants itself in the uterine lining.
Their reproductive cycle is characterized by a period of embryonic diapause, during which the blastocyst suspends implantation and development.
Normally, the result of doing this is a chimera an animal that consists of a mixture of cells derived from the injected cell and the blastocyst.
You had mentioned that twins can develop when the inner cell mass splits in the blastocyst and forms two embryos enclosed in a common trophoblast.
After about five or six days in vitro human embryos will reach a stage that is called the blastocyst stage.
Stem cells would be harvested from the blastocyst and transformed into the desired tissues for transplant.

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