embryonic
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“We believe as a business that embryonic selection, genetic optimization, is not for the few, but for everyone,” Sadeghi said at the June launch of Nucleus’s polygenic embryo screening product.
While the business stated that its votes would uphold church teaching on abortion, it made no reference to other issues involving human life, such as euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem-cell use, or human cloning.
They rarely work with finished products; instead, they nurture embryonic ideas.
From Los Angeles Times
Because both the brain and skin develop from the same embryonic layer called the ectoderm, the scientists set out to explore how these two systems might be connected.
From Science Daily
"We achieved something that was thought to be impossible," said Prof Shoukhrat Mitalipov, the director of the Oregon Health and Science University's centre for embryonic cell and gene therapy.
From BBC
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