embryology

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According to the report, the embryology laboratory at Al-Basma was hit in early December 2023, reportedly destroying around 4,000 embryos as well as 1,000 sperm samples and unfertilised eggs.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

Centuries of embryology and morphology laid the groundwork for the discipline of developmental biology.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

Elliot is an impulsive, hair-down type, who is more excited about pushing scientific and ethical boundaries with a cutting-edge embryology lab than about providing compassionate care.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2023

Edward Dolnick's absorbing detective story spans outlandish ancient theories on baby-making and the nineteenth-century dawn of embryology, led by pioneers such as Oscar Hertwig.

From Nature • Jul. 4, 2017

Ironically, even though embryology had launched the discipline of modern genetics, the reconciliation between genes and genesis would be a vastly more engaging scientific problem.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee