How to Use in vitro in a Sentence

in vitro

adverb or adjective
  • Guan and her team plan to test their ideas with in vitro studies.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
  • If lab tests found the fish to be healthy, its sperm would be combined in vitro with eggs from wild females.
    — Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021
  • It was then grown in vitro in a bioreactor for a week to help the cells multiply.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2025
  • We are told more about the men’s in vitro feelings than we are permitted to see them in vivo.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2025
  • So there is to be in vivo – in the living organism – sorry and in vitro.
    — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
  • Other oils have been tested on in vitro cells or in rodents, but have yet to make it to human trials.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The embryos that came as a result of their in vitro fertilization were all male.
    — Mikelle Street, Them., 5 Aug. 2025
  • It is mainly used to create human tissue for research and for drug testing in vitro.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Cities are promising to cover the cost of in vitro fertilization.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Compared to in vitro systems, in chemico assays can be faster and more cost-effective.
    — Brad Reisfeld, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Silvia Fischer and her colleagues grew mast cells from mouse bone marrow in vitro.
    — Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • There are no current restrictions on in vitro fertilization, nor should there be.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Memphis Meats won a patent earlier this year for an in vitro method of producing cultured meat.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Walz and his wife had their daughter, Hope, using in vitro fertilization.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Neva and her wife, Kelsey, were considering using a surrogate or an in vitro method to have a child.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The circuit court judge dismissed the case on the grounds that an embryo stored in vitro did not count as a person under Alabama law.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • How do these synthetic gene circuits fare when used on CAR T cells in vitro and in vivo?
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The world is changing so quickly, especially in the field of in vitro fertilization.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • At 39, Tosca had twins, a boy and girl, now 11, via in vitro fertilization with an anonymous sperm donor.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
  • This is the time when embryos are usually transferred to the uterus during in vitro fertilization treatment.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • When in vitro fertilization began in the 1970s, scholars of some of the largest faiths urged caution.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Porters used in vitro fertilization to assist the pregnancies.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • After many attempts to have children, their twin sons were born through in vitro fertilization in 1998.
    — Adrianne Murchison, AJC.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Haas gave birth to a boy through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 2008.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2023
  • My best hope of getting pregnant would be with an egg donor through in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
    — Marisa Renee Lee, refinery29.com, 7 May 2020
  • The Liu children were conceived via in vitro fertilization and born to surrogate mothers.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Isaacson reports Zilis’ pregnancy was via in vitro fertilization, with Musk as the sperm donor.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • She'd been diagnosed with ocular melanoma, a rare eye cancer that had the potential to spread and cross her placenta to infect the babies in vitro.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
  • So one very exciting example of what can be one with AI today is to actually design your drugs in vitro right?
    — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
  • The astronaut’s journey with trying to conceive a second child via in vitro fertilization has been challenging, to say the least.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2025

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