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embryo

[em-bree-oh] / ˈɛm briˌoʊ /
NOUN
fetus
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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

On the agency’s instructions, according to court records, the surrogate canceled her Medicaid and began to prepare for the embryo transfer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

The research team discovered that many of these extra mutations arise soon after conception during the earliest rounds of cell division in the embryo.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

A week later it was confirmed that the embryo hadn't become a baby.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

Every segment of an embryo can be defined on an axis that stretches from head to tail.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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