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Léo Carrillo
@leo-carrillo.bsky.social
He/Him. @ucl.ac.uk postdoctoral researcher in cultivated meat.
Sharing and promoting science.
So happy to see my PhD work out as a preprint on BioRxiv ! 🎉

A special thanks to @amiteshp.bsky.social for the great team work, as well as our supervisors @crougeulle.bsky.social, @jfouimette.bsky.social and @pasquelab.bsky.social for their support during the project !
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭! 🎉
“𝐗𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐗-𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬” 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐑𝐱𝐢𝐯!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
XIST Drives X-Chromosome Inactivation and Safeguards Female Extraembryonic Cells in Humans
Dosage compensation of sex chromosomes through X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is required for mice extra-embryonic tissue growth and embryo development. The species specificity in mechanisms and timi...
www.biorxiv.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Happy to share my first science piece written for the Naked Scientists website !
If you are curious about cultivated meat and its future in the food industry you can read it here : www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/sci...
Is lab grown meat a palatable option for the food industry?
What if instead of raising animals for years and slaughtering them to harvest their meat, we could grow it in laboratories?
www.thenakedscientists.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM