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synonyms for embryo

  • egg
  • nucleus
  • organism
  • incipient
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A female-founded Israeli startup called Embryonics is setting out to change this by using artificial intelligence to screen embryos.
HOW AN ISRAELI STARTUP IS USING AI TO HELP PEOPLE MAKE BABIESVANESSA BATES RAMIREZJANUARY 27, 2021SINGULARITY HUB 
Gene changes, or mutations, seen in the newly studied twins suggest that embryos don’t split neatly in half when twins form.
SOME IDENTICAL TWINS DON’T HAVE THE EXACT SAME DNATINA HESMAN SAEYJANUARY 22, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
Of those, 38 pairs were genetic duplicates of each other, but most had some differences in DNA that probably arose very early in development, either just before one embryo split to form two or shortly after the split.
SOME IDENTICAL TWINS DON’T HAVE IDENTICAL DNATINA HESMAN SAEYJANUARY 7, 2021SCIENCE NEWS
Because the mother worm contributes the same number of proteins to every embryo, small embryos have high concentrations of proteins and large embryos have low concentrations.
A NEWFOUND SOURCE OF CELLULAR ORDER IN THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFEVIVIANE CALLIERJANUARY 7, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINE
In any case, Keenan said he’s confident that the 27-year-old embryo will not be the oldest ever brought to a live birth.
MEET MOLLY, THE BABY WHO CAME FROM AN EMBRYO FROZEN WHEN HER MOM WAS A YEAR OLDMARISA IATIDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Most controversially, a scientist in China edited genes in human embryos.
2020 CHEMISTRY NOBEL GOES FOR CRISPR, THE GENE-EDITING TOOLTINA HESMAN SAEYOCTOBER 8, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
Without endosymbionts, more than half the embryos failed to develop at all.
HOW TWO BECAME ONE: ORIGINS OF A MYSTERIOUS SYMBIOSIS FOUNDVIVIANE CALLIERSEPTEMBER 9, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
The commission also specified that before human germline editing is considered, no other way of ensuring a couple can produce embryos without the disease-causing genetic variants should be available.
STRICT NEW GUIDELINES LAY OUT A PATH TO HERITABLE HUMAN GENE EDITINGTINA HESMAN SAEYSEPTEMBER 3, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
That said, it’s possible virus bits could become embedded in an embryo’s genetic material if a virus’s RNA or DNA makes it into sperm or an egg.
READERS ASK ABOUT EXOPLANET HEATING SOURCES, COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE AND COVID-19SCIENCE NEWS STAFFJULY 4, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Some of those eggs contained wriggling embryos and a few eggs hatched, the team reports June 22 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
FISH EGGS CAN HATCH AFTER BEING EATEN AND POOPED OUT BY DUCKSCAROLYN WILKEJUNE 29, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
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WORDS RELATED TO EMBRYO

  • antecedent
  • birth
  • conception
  • egg
  • embryo
  • font
  • fount
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • generation
  • genesis
  • germ
  • heart
  • principle
  • resource
  • root
  • seed
  • stem
  • well
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