embryo
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Using IVF, they created an embryo in London, which was shipped to Kyiv and stored in the clinic's cryogenic storage tanks.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
An in-person doctor’s visit is the only reliable way to diagnose an ectopic pregnancy—a life-threatening condition in which an embryo implants outside the uterus.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
In Chloe’s case, she began the pregnancy process by contracting with a fertility clinic to implant an embryo conceived with Silvia’s egg and Fausto’s sperm.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
Scientists from the Robinson Research Institute, the School of Biomedicine, and the Freemasons Centre for Male Health and Wellbeing studied how space-like conditions affect sperm navigation, fertilization, and early embryo development.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
Aristotle was remarkable for his explorations of natural phenomena, studying, for example, the development of the chicken embryo within the egg.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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