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- noun Plural form of
blastocyst .
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Examples
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They need all the blastocysts from the fertility clinics to build their clone army.
Think Progress » Army In Crisis: Two-Thirds of Brigade Combat Teams Not Ready to Report for Duty 2006
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Dagan Wells and his team already have a test that reveals abnormal chromosomes – one of the leading causes of IVF failure – in five-day-old embryos, called blastocysts.
Embryo 'health check' could increase pregnancy rates through IVF treatment 2011
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Many conservatives oppose human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, and President George W. Bush severely limited its funding, because the five-day old embryos (called blastocysts) that are used are living organisms and, if implanted into a uterus, could mature into people.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Stem Cell Advance Raises New Questions: 2009
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The five-day old embryos called blastocysts that are used are living organisms...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Stem Cell Advance Raises New Questions: 2009
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The problem is the best stem cells are harvested from surplus embryos (called blastocysts), which are microscopic clumps of 200-250 cells.
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The test involves taking a biopsy from five-day-old embryos called blastocysts, to see if they have the correct configuration of two copies of all 23 chromosomes, one from each parent.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The test involves taking a biopsy from five-day-old embryos called blastocysts, to see if they have the correct configuration of two copies of all 23 chromosomes, one from each parent.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), they are extracted from clusters of cells called blastocysts that are created during in vitro fertilization procedures to help people with reproductive issues.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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Embryos at this stage, called blastocysts, are spheres containing about 100 cells that have not yet differentiated into more specialized cells.
YubaNet.com 2008
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January 2008 – Development of human cloned blastocysts following somatic cell nuclear transfer with adult fibroblasts [60]
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