How to Use embryology in a Sentence

embryology

noun
  • The tank in the andrology lab, where sperm is handled, is fixed, but the tank in the embryology lab - containing frozen eggs and embryos -- still needs repaired.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Errors happen in every arena of medicine—and embryology is no exception.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Health.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • And more important, would conceiving a child outside the womb (not actually in a test tube but in an embryology lab) have any long-term effects?
    — Amy Klein, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
  • Instruments for moving embryos in culture dishes sit on desks throughout the embryology lab.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The field of synthetic embryology has exploded in recent years.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
  • But embryology labs were excluded and, thus, fertility clinics can choose to be accredited or not.
    — Kayla Webley Adler, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Basic embryology shows that the human nervous system is established by six weeks’ gestation.
    — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
  • As the science of synthetic embryology gets more sophisticated the models become more useful.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The shots induce the ovaries to ripen multiple follicles, the sacs that contain eggs, so that a surgeon can go in with a tiny needle, and drain the fluid in those follicles, which is then run into an adjacent embryology lab to search for the eggs.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • 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.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Whether human embryos are human beings is a question resolved by human embryology and developmental biology.
    — Robert P. George, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Darwin wove together evidence from paleontology, embryology and other sciences to show that living things were related to one another by common descent.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2016
  • In 1973, the court decreed — without basis in the Constitution's text, structure or history, or in embryology or other science — a trimester policy.
    — George Will, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Even the English mathematician Alan Turing, famed for cracking the Enigma code, was fascinated by embryology.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2018
  • 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.
    — Riley Black, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The buildings are rented for exhibitions and classes in gardening, horticulture, chicken embryology, homemaking and robotics.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Accredited clinics are monitored for their adherence to the guidelines, which include the number of embryos that can be transferred, as well as the quality of embryology labs, qualification of staff and data submission to federal agencies.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In 2011, with Oregon Health & Science’s support, Mitalipov established a small human embryology group to pursue his goal.
    — Stephen S. Hall, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
  • In one sense, the argument coincided with the emerging medical understanding of embryology that characterized pregnancy as a continuum of development and did not consider quickening to be its defining stage.
    — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Schnuelle had a degree in veterinary medicine with areas of clinical emphasis in dairy production medicine, bovine embryology, and canine reproduction, according to Auburn University's website.
    — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This is happening thanks to better technology in the embryology labs, and the increasingly popular preimplantation genetic screening, or PGS.
    — Elissa Strauss, Slate Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
  • Ultimately, a combination of natural history, embryology, and paleobiology will be needed to fully understand the unique anatomy of giraffes.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2011
  • In the more than 160 years since Darwin advanced his revolutionary idea, evolutionary biologists have marshaled evidence from paleontology, genetics and embryology that has proved him right.
    — John A. Long, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
  • Among them were a requirement to teach embryology, authorization for the education commissioner to remove textbooks from circulation, and a prohibition against public schools using any funds for programs, goods and services that support diversity, equity and inclusion.
    — Jeffrey S. Solochek, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Colossal is hiring for roles in computational biology, embryology, stem cell biology, software engineering, advanced biology, medical device hardware and genomics.
    — Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Melissa underwent two separate egg-retrieval procedures, from which HRC Fertility's embryology laboratory created five embryos, according to the lawsuit.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Nipam Patel, an evolutionary and developmental biologist at the Marine Biology Laboratory, first investigated the wings of several such species with his students in an embryology class.
    — Harini Barath, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2021

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