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embryology

[em-bree-ol-uh-jee] / ˌɛm briˈɒl ə dʒi /


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According to the report, the embryology laboratory at Al-Basma was hit in early December 2023, reportedly destroying around 4,000 embryos as well as 1,000 sperm samples and unfertilised eggs.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2025

To detect whether these shapes came from an ancestral bat wing or evolved independently, Sears and her colleagues investigated the embryology of different bat species and the genes responsible for the tissue's development.

From Scientific American Oct. 1, 2023

Elliot is an impulsive, hair-down type, who is more excited about pushing scientific and ethical boundaries with a cutting-edge embryology lab than about providing compassionate care.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2023

Researchers attending the MBL embryology course spend six weeks in Woods Hole.

From Nature Feb. 23, 2020

Scientists studying living organisms were far more preoccupied with other matters: embryology, cell biology, the origin of species, and evolution.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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