embryo
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The embryo must successfully implant, and then even after implantation and a positive pregnancy test there’s risk of miscarriage.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
"Our data predict that nanomolar concentrations of vanillin will reach the embryo in pregnant women who vape," Talbot said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
They discovered that the brain organoids continued to change and mature over the years, despite never having been inside an embryo, let alone a body.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Her contract paid $50,000 for one embryo, plus $10,000 for each additional embryo carried to term, and expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
In a volley of pathbreaking papers published between 1986 and 1990, Nüsslein-Volhard and her colleagues definitively identified several of the factors that provide the signal for “headness” and “tailness” in the embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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An international research team led by scientists in Canada has uncovered a likely explanation for one of the more unusual features of snake development: why embryos curl into tight spirals before hatching.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
"We obtained pictures for more than 900 embryos from 39 snake and other limbless squamate species. That's a statistically robust sample."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
During the first several weeks after the eggs were laid, the embryos appeared to coil only dextrally, meaning to the right, as viewed from head to tail.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
Officials explained that such eggs were often smuggled in improvised incubators and in conditions that endangered the welfare of developing embryos and hatchlings.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
For of course, they didn’t content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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