How to Use embryo in a Sentence
embryo
noun-
Is the person or the people who those embryos belong to charged?
— Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024 -
The germ is its embryo, which has the potential to sprout into a new plant.
— Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 25 Mar. 2023 -
The next step on their journey is to find a surrogate to carry the embryo to term.
— Julie Moreau, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2022 -
The doctors were able to get seven — three less than their goal in the hope of getting one healthy embryo.
— Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024 -
Her ovaries are pulled outside her body, and a catheter full of embryos is plunged into her oviduct.
— Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024 -
Bizarrely, most of the embryo’s long stint in utero is spent barely doing anything at all.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2023 -
Some dropped their eggs in the shallow pits, and the embryos likely cooked from being too close to hot surface sand.
— Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023 -
The embryos were nourished by a milk-like substance secreted in the oviduct.
— Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024 -
The result is that over a million frozen eggs or embryos are stored in the United States today.
— Eva Epker, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 -
The uterus transplant takes place and six months later, the embryo is implanted.
— Williesha Morris | Wmorris@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023 -
The medical name for the process the Ridgeways went through is embryo donation.
— Nadia Kounang, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022 -
Clear ice means the water had time to expand around the embryo before freezing.
— Oliver Whang, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022 -
Scientists clone Ripley, along with the Xenomorph Queen embryo inside her, to study the aliens.
— Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024 -
The embryos would have otherwise been wasted when the mothers died.
— Gareth J. Fraser, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024 -
The chimeric embryos were made by injecting the human stem cells into the pig embryos.
— Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Few Americans relish the thought of ending the life of an embryo or fetus.
— Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023 -
This resilience in the embryo has taken some by surprise.
— Laura Hercher, Scientific American, 1 June 2022 -
Inside each cone are dozens of seeds, and scientists search for healthy embryos.
— Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024 -
The treatments produced two embryos, one of which resulted in their son, now 4.
— Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023 -
Even with perfect embryos… things don’t always go as planned.
— Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023 -
The answer, which holds much consequence in a post-Roe world, depends on the state where that embryo resides.
— Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024 -
In other words, by any moral metric, the embryo seems more deserving of life than the mother.
— Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024 -
Then use the thylacine cells to create an embryo, either in a petri dish or the womb of a living animal.
— Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022 -
Researchers know the heart is the first organ to fully function in the growing human embryo.
— Aitor Aguirre, The Conversation, 10 May 2024 -
As a result, the contribution of human cells in the chimeric embryos Wu’s group produced was low.
— Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023 -
In young frog embryos, cells in a part called the neural tube have a specific electrical charge.
— Study Summaries, Scientific American, 17 May 2023 -
Alexandra went through a lot to conceive the couple’s fourth child, including the loss of the first embryo, surgeries to get scar tissue cleared and more.
— Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 June 2023 -
Ten to 15 of those embryos — based fully on the DNA from the dog being cloned — are then implanted into the uterus of a surrogate dog.
— Jack Nicas, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023 -
The paper points to Italy, which enacted a 2004 law that required IVF treatment providers to create no more than three embryos at a time and implant all embryos during each treatment.
— Caleb McCullough, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2024 -
Rather than actual embryos, the team experimented with stem cells and models of blastocysts called blastoids.
— Michael Irving, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
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