embryo

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The team examined how exposure to microgravity during fertilisation influences early embryo development in animal models.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

Eventually, the 10th and final embryo worked, and Anita became pregnant.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

He said "a huge team of people" had been involved in the process - from the transplant operation to the embryo transfer and the delivery itself.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

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

Units of hereditary information, encoded in DNA and packaged on chromosomes, are transmitted through sperm and egg into an embryo, and from the embryo to every living cell in an organism’s body.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee