inseminate
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A Colorado jury awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate mothers who requested anonymous donors.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
She had hoped to artificially inseminate ocelots at three zoos as part of a project to save these small, elegant spotted cats in the wild.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 4, 2023
Semen from a Merino ram from Australia was used to artificially inseminate 35 Romney sheep on two farms in Gwynedd.
From BBC ● May 15, 2023
The reason isn’t romantic: Female termites can’t store sperm, so they need a male to inseminate them over and over.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
Use 0.1 c.c. of the mixed liquor to inseminate each of a series of three nutrose surface plates.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
If a breeder inseminates cows with semen from an infertile bull, the cows will not become pregnant.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Female orcas kept captive in marine zoos can be artificially inseminated to breed more calves, which can later be used to attract more visitors and perform in shows.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
In Switzerland, around 800,000 cows are artificially inseminated every year.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Reeves and Swanson artificially inseminated nine zoo ocelots with sperm from the wild Texas animals in 2021 and 2022, and no pregnancies resulted.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 4, 2023
In 2012, she was artificially inseminated after unsuccessful natural breeding with Tian Tian and became the first giant panda in the country to give birth after the use of frozen semen, experts said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
If then we prepare densely inseminated plates of these two bacteria in gelatine food-medium to which starch is added as the only carbohydrate, the bacteria grow but do not phosphoresce.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
And with each insemination costing 80 Swiss francs, that can soon eat up a breeder's budget: a typical Swiss dairy farm spends several thousand Swiss francs a year on artificially inseminating its herd of cows.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Kiken is one of about a half-dozen doctors who have been publicly accused of covertly inseminating patients with their own sperm.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2020
Texas, where Emmons-Boring currently lives, passed a law earlier this year prohibiting a doctor from inseminating a woman with his own sperm without her consent.
From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2019
Dr Barwin was previously sanctioned by the college in 2013 for artificially inseminating three patients with the wrong sperm and received a short suspension.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2019
He stopped practicing in 2014, one year after his license was suspended for two months after he admitted inseminating four women with the wrong sperm.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2018
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