gestation
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The company says its product, which works solely with bovine breath samples, has detected gestation with 94% accuracy in lab tests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
The Saers had five years of fertility struggles, which included losing their unborn baby, Elsie, at 14 weeks' gestation on Christmas Eve in 2011.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
Very young babies rely on antibodies acquired during gestation and herd immunity to protect them from measles, which killed roughly 400 children every year in the U.S. before the combined MMR vaccine’s introduction in 1971.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025
An award-winning Palestinian American writer tackles subjects including home, displacement and gestation in this lyrical memoir that explores the trauma of fractured identity.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025
“Did you know that bovines have a typical gestation period of approximately two hundred and eighty-three days?”
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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