How to Use blastocyst in a Sentence

blastocyst

noun

• The blastocyst, the email said, would have been a girl.
  — Dani Blum, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• Then they are left in a petri dish to grow into what are called blastocysts.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
• Embryos that survive to the blastocyst stage stand a good chance of implantation once placed in the uterus.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 30 Nov. 2021
• The team then took stem cells from rats and injected them into pig blastocysts.
  — Photograph Courtesy Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2017
• During this stage, more cell division takes place, and your blastocyst takes a ball-like shape.
  — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 18 Nov. 2023
• The researchers then plucked a few cells from among the 300 or so in each blastocyst and established embryonic stem cell lines in the lab.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 8 July 2022
• But there could be other cells in the blastocyst that have unaltered GJB2 genes or off-target changes.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2019
• For now, these early embryos, called blastocysts, have been frozen.
  — NBC News, 4 July 2018
• But to keep growing, a blastocyst had to embed itself into the lining of a mother’s uterus.
  — Amos Zeeberg (discover Web Editor), Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
• My twins were formed when a blastocyst collapsed in on itself—but then, instead of dying, doubled.
  — Sarah Stewart Johnson, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
• The cells are stem cells that can be used as regenerative medicine treatments in the person from whom the blastula or blastocyst was made.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2016
• Five days after the donor's eggs were harvested and fertilized, one blastocyst was transferred to my uterus.
  — Sarah Kowalski, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2018
• In mammals, a hollow sphere made out of fewer than 100 cells (called a blastocyst) forms days after an egg is fertilized.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2018
• Fail to mature a reprogrammed egg into a blastocyst, and there’s no embryo to even transfer.
  — Damon Casarez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
• One way in which researchers have tried to delve into events after the blastocyst stage is by producing ersatz embryos from mouse stem cells.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 17 June 2023
• These add-ons include blastocyst culture, where the embryo is allowed to grow in the lab for five days instead of the usual three, before being transferred to a woman’s uterus.
  — Sandy Ong, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2017
• The teams behind the new work hope their blastocyst-like models could provide a ready supply of stand-ins for the real thing and a better imitation than mouse blastoids.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 19 Mar. 2021
• Freeman didn’t think about the cells in her uterus as embryos or blastocysts or possibilities.
  — Sara Harrison, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
• The experiment was the first time a rhino embryo created in a lab has reached the blastocyst stage, according to scientists at the San Diego Zoo who were not involved in the work.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2019
• Under certain culture conditions, the cells can form each of the three cell types in the blastocyst, researchers previously found.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 17 Mar. 2021
• But these extended pluripotent stem cells were able to form a structure similar to the blastocyst stage of an embryo, which the scientists called blastoids.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
• Bears mate in springtime, but the fertilized egg remains a microscopic blastocyst until late fall when the sow dens up for winter.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• Of the four embryos that survived to the blastocyst stage, only two were genetically normal.
  — Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• The goal is to assess cellular development and move these embryos to blastocyst stage (a more complex embryo structure made up of about 200 cells) on Day 5.
  — Anna Beard, Fox News, 10 July 2017
• Water in the blastocysts cells is replaced with a cryoprotectant, which functions like antifreeze.
  — Ginger Christ and Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Now, using mouse stem cells instead of the usual sperm and egg, scientists have created a structure like a blastocyst -- an early embryo.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 3 May 2018
• Meanwhile my body was prepped to mimic the phase of my cycle optimal for implantation of a blastocyst, or fertilized egg.
  — Sarah Kowalski, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2018
• Many miscarriages occur during this stage, for example, and a blastocyst can also split to create twins.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 17 Mar. 2021
• Now, researchers hope to also create blastocysts from the frozen northern white rhino sperm and the eggs collected from Najin and Fatu to create pure northern white rhino embryos.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 Aug. 2019
• Currently, technicians rely on the shape of the days-old blastocyst, but having a more reliable way to determine if the embryo is healthy would vastly improve on IVF results.
  — Alice Park, Time, 20 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024