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embryo

[em-bree-oh] / ˈɛm briˌoʊ /
NOUN
fetus
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A magazine account admiringly described Osterberg's students, typically in their late teens, as "teachers in embryo... destined high priestesses of a new cult".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The researchers also noticed age-related changes to the womb lining or endometrium - where a fertilised egg or embryo implants to grow - in the older women.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Columbia University associate professor Dieter Egli says his group has precisely edited genes in an embryo, a landmark scientific move that is highly controversial.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

In late 2023, CooperSurgical recalled three lots of embryo culture solution used for in vitro fertilization.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Told them of the growing embryo on its bed of peritoneum.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

In the study, the live birth rate was around 80% for women aged 35-40 and 62.5% among those aged 49 or older who transferred all available embryos.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

In Egli’s study, nearly 80% of embryos became mosaics, meaning if those embryos grew into babies, they would likely still have cells with the disease-causing mutations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Investigations showed the solution was missing magnesium, which caused embryos to stop developing, degrade, or die.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Multiple planetary embryos emerge at roughly the same time and gradually evolve over millions of years into full planets.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

We stopped going to the egg-dumping site when, of all the eggs we dug up, something like 99 percent of them turned up dead embryos.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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