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embryo

[em-bree-oh] / ˈɛm briˌoʊ /
NOUN
fetus
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"I've never heard of an incident like this in the UK. It is the biggest fear of any IVF unit to mix up an egg or sperm or embryo."

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Scientists from the Robinson Research Institute, the School of Biomedicine, and the Freemasons Centre for Male Health and Wellbeing studied how space-like conditions affect sperm navigation, fertilization, and early embryo development.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 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

A week later it was confirmed that the embryo hadn't become a baby.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

Because fathers don’t contribute mitochondrial DNA to the embryo, the succession occurs only through the female line.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann