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• Air-insulated reclosers (AIR reclosers) are emerging as a promising alternative in the Recloser Market, driven by a growing focus on environmental sustainability.
• Their future growth depends on overcoming limitations through technological advancements while leveraging their environmental benefits to gain wider acceptance within the evolving Recloser Market.
• The North American Recloser Market is a fragmented market with established global players and regional participants vying for market share.
• International companies like ABB, Eaton, Schneider Electric, and Siemens hold a strong presence in the market, offering a variety of recloser solutions.

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• This has made it difficult for scientists to understand early human development.
• By offering new tools to explore the enigmatic earliest stages of human development, synthetic embryology can help researchers overcome the challenges of using real human embryos.
• With these new models, researchers can also better understand conditions that affect human reproduction and development as well as maternal-fetal health, potentially leading to new therapies.

Making human embryos from stem cells

• This triggers the egg to rapidly divide into embryonic cells that soon form an inner cell mass that eventually develops into the fetus and a outer layer of cells that will give rise to the placenta.
• Synthetic embryology artificially recreates these developmental stages using human pluripotent stem cells derived from human embryos or induced from adult human cells.
• Like early embryonic cells, these cells have the ability to develop into any type of cell in the human body.

• Researchers created the first human embryo model from embryonic stem cells in 2014.
• This pioneering model, also called a gastruloid, captured key aspects of early human development and showed that scientists can drive pluripotent stem cells to form patterned layers echoing the three germ layers and the outer layers of the embryo.

Advancements in human embryo models

• Over the years, various models have been able to replicate different facets of human embryogenesis, such as amniotic sac development, germ layer formation and body plan organization.
• However, none of these models fully captures the entire process of a single cell type developing into the complete structure of a whole embryo.
• Blastoids form in a similar way to human embryos, starting from just a few cells that proliferate and organize themselves.
• Recently, researchers have successfully created more complex models in the lab that mimic what happens after embryos attach to the womb.

Choosing the right models

• This goal underscores the importance of carefully choosing the model best suited to the specific research objectives at hand.
• Creating embryo models from a patient’s own cells could also allow researchers to study the genetics of development and aid in personalizing treatments.
• The International Society for Stem Cell Research strictly prohibits transferring these embryo models into the uterus of a human or an animal.
• Although these models mimic certain features of early developmental stages, they cannot and will not develop into the equivalent of a human baby after birth.

Min (Mia) Yang receives funding from University of Washington

• The portfolio includes specialty chemicals – many produced in the Houston area and all made in the U.S.A. – designed to improve clay control, hydrogen sulfide scavenging, scale inhibition, and more.
• Hexatran™ Hexasalt is a cost-effective, semi-permanent clay stabilizer that outperforms common alternatives.
• Amines such as FlexaTram™-BHM and FlexaTram™-HMT are additives in scale and corrosion inhibitors, frac sand coatings, and clay stabilizers.
• Ascend is exhibiting at Booth 818 at the SPE HFTC February 6-8 at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center in The Woodlands, Texas.