embryo
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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
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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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