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embryology

[em-bree-ol-uh-jee] / ˌɛm briˈɒl ə dʒi /


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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

To detect whether these shapes came from an ancestral bat wing or evolved independently, Sears and her colleagues investigated the embryology of different bat species and the genes responsible for the tissue's development.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023

Also named in the suit are In VitroTech Labs, a third-party embryology center, and its parent company, Beverly Sunset Surgical Associates, both owned by Mor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2021

Although media reports in 2017 had published some details of Schneider’s case, it was discussed only in hushed tones among researchers involved with the embryology course at the MBL.

From Nature ● Feb. 23, 2020

Scientists studying living organisms were far more preoccupied with other matters: embryology, cell biology, the origin of species, and evolution.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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