How to Use embryo in a Sentence

embryo

noun
  • What did that mean about the whereabouts of their own embryo?
    Elizabeth Narins, Health.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • An embryo like the one detailed in the paper, with all its bones in place, is rarer still.
    Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • In February, the Troxlers had one last chance with a frozen embryo.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The genetic material will then be transferred to a dunnart embryo and the first thylacine can be brought back to life.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Distribute the embryos based on a balancing of interests.
    Julia Rodgers, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

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