embryonic
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Since many ports lack the grid infrastructure to power so many energy-guzzling ships, and emission-capture technology is embryonic, ships may have no choice but to pay the fines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The study, "The embryonic origins of site-specific arthritis," was published in Nature Immunology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
She sprang from Zeus’ skull fully formed; her embryonic development reduced to a male deity’s headache.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
The study was conducted in the laboratory using human embryonic stem cells -- which are similar to cells found in human embryos at about three weeks of development -- rather than in pregnant women.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
One embryonic segment becomes the second section of the thorax and grows two wings.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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