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embryo
embryo (em-bri-oh) n. an animal at an early stage of development, before birth (see illustration). In humans the term refers to the products of conception within the uterus up to the eighth week of development, during which time all the main organs are formed. Compare
fetus.
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embryonic (em-bri-
on-ik) adj.
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Embryos and us.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 8/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...involves the murder of embryos, or argue that every embryo created by IVF...the view that the embryo is just a commodity...contrast, the embryos stored at fertility...research on existing embryos will allow humans...freedom. Barring embryo manufacturing will...
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Unthawing Frozen Embryos: The Legal & Ethical Conundrum of Embryo Adoption
Magazine article from: Human Life Review; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...of their remaining embryos to other couples. The process of embryo donation typically...began the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program, states that "when embryos are created, Ufe...the child." Its embryo adoption program...Snowflakes because embryos are unique and fragile...
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 "Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Embryo donations fuel stem cell debate.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 9/15/2002; 700+ words
; ...the family as an embryo donated by another...area couple with embryos to spare after a...rights have touted embryo donation as a better use of embryos than embryonic stem...elevate the rights of embryos call the process embryo adoption and argue...
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Embryos in freezer: A dilemma for couples Unforeseen upshot of fertility treatment
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/5/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...to let them know that frozen embryos may result and that deciding...said discussions about the embryos should be "revisited, and not happen just at the time of embryo freezing, because people...their way of thinking about embryos change as time passes and they...
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Embryo donations fuel stem cell debate
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 10/7/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the family as an embryo donated by another...area couple with embryos to spare after a...rights have promoted embryo donation as a better use of embryos than embryonic stem...elevate the rights of embryos call the process embryo adoption and argue...
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 "Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)")
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Embryo innovation: Adoption now an option for frozen embryos.
Newspaper article from: Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK); 8/24/2006; 700+ words
; ...old, gave their embryos to an infertile couple...through Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program...options are to have the embryos destroyed or donate...who consider an embryo to be a child. After...that is born. The embryos are still frozen. Since Snowflakes began embryo adoption in ...
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Embryos' cold cruel world
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...said, look on their embryos "like little babies...acceptable to discard surplus embryos, and the practice is...University. Thawing a frozen embryo and allowing it to die...Center. Removing an embryo from its nitrogen tank...Furton added that surplus embryos wouldn't exist if everyone...
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Destroyed embryos could benefit research
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 2/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to using non- viable embryos - those with defects...position, detractors warn embryo stem cell research is...with ethical problems. Embryos provide an important...members believed all embryos were potential humans...uncomfortable with the idea of embryo stem cell research and...
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Embryo 'outsourcing'-India at the centrestage.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 1/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...here to adopt not babies but embryos. Embryo adoption is the newest method...websites have come up offering embryo adoption. "An embryo adoption cycle in our clinic...alternative, you can ship the embryos to an IVF clinic of your own...
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 "Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)")
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Frozen embryos a gift to infertile families.
Newspaper article from: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL); 4/16/2004; 700+ words
; ...curtain on the 400,000 embryos in the United States...States from a frozen embryo in 1986, embryos have been the center...Services, a long-term embryo storage facility in Augusta...The unused, frozen embryos result from the in...
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Embryo Transfer
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...vitro fertilization, embryo culture, preservation of embryos by freezing (cryopreservation...increased successes in embryo implantation. Selection of embryos is an important issue...Events used to score the embryos include embryo metabolism assessment...
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Embryo and Embryonic Development
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
Embryo and embryonic development The term embryo applies to the earliest form of life, produced when an egg...functions that will be needed in the adult plant or animal. An embryo is a living organism, like a full-grown rose bush, frog...
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embryo
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...usually called a larva . In plants, the embryo is found in the seed, and the embryo stage ends on germination . An embryo results when the nuclei of a gamete...a blastula . In 2004, thirty human embryos were cloned in South Korea. See also...
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embryo biopsy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...exhibited in one or both parents. Embryo biopsy has been used successfully...determine the gender of the embryo. Given this ability, X...by implanting only female embryos (which will carry but will...correct number of chromosomes. Embryo biopsy has also been used to...
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embryo sac
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
embryo sac The female gametophyte (an oval structure...fertilization of the egg and development of the embryo . It consists of 6 haploid cells without...to form a zygote which develops into the embryo. The second male nucleus fuses with the...
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