Peer-Reviewed Publication
Nat Commun2026;17(1)February 19, 2026Journal Article

FATE-MAP predicts teratogenicity and human gastrulation failure modes by integrating deep learning and mechanistic modeling.

Joseph Rufo1,2,3, Chongxu Qiu1, Dasol Han1,3, Naomi Baxter1, Gabrielle Daley1, Jasmine Dhillon1, Felix Wong4, James J Collins5,6,7, Maxwell Z Wilson8,9,10
1Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
2Center for BioEngineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
3Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
4Integrated Biosciences, Inc., Redwood City, CA, USA.
5Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
6Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
7Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
8Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. mzw@ucsb.edu.
9Center for BioEngineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. mzw@ucsb.edu.
10Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. mzw@ucsb.edu.

Abstract

Gastrulation, a critical developmental stage involving germ layer specification and axes formation, is a major point of failure in human development, contributing to pregnancy loss and congenital malformations. However, due to ethical constraints and anatomical differences in animal models, the failure modes underlying human gastrulation remain poorly understood. To elucidate these failure modes,…

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