implantation

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Pigs have long been used in human medicine, including pig skin grafts and implantation of pig heart valves.

From Seattle Times

Ray’s answer, and the key word for his legion of curatorial and academic fans, is what he calls “embedment”: a kind of ontological rightness, an implantation within a certain space and time and society.

From New York Times

One Igenomix study from 2013 found that one in four women with repeated I.V.F. failure had a displaced window of implantation and concluded that those patients could benefit from using the test.

From New York Times

Only an embryo free of the known disease/mutation is selected for implantation into the woman’s uterus and, hopefully, it will then grow into a baby.

From Washington Post

When embryos of the wrong sex die before implantation, the mother has fewer embryos to sustain, making it more likely that the “right” embryos will thrive.

From Science Magazine