How to Use in vivo in a Sentence

in vivo

adverb or adjective
  • Gene editing inside the body or in vivo is now an achievable goal.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • This study is provocative enough to call for further in vivo studies.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2010
  • But, these findings have not been replicated in vivo in humans.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The researchers are now planning in vivo tests on animals.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The authors have not tested whether this mechanism is active in human skin in vivo.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers further tested the approach in vivo in the large intestine of a rat.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
  • There are experimental antivirals that have been used in vitro and in vivo.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Other teams are also testing in vivo gene editing to treat various diseases.
    — Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Senolytic this, Hayflick limit that, telomeres and in vivo trials with mus muculus mice.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • So that will be in vitro and in vivo work in animals, and then validating that in human lactation studies.
    — STAT, 21 June 2019
  • The goal of my thesis is to investigate an in vivo model of a premature aging disorder.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • The study was conducted in vitro and is not comparable to in vivo research, Urrialde said.
    — Carla Delgado, Verywell Health, 5 July 2023
  • Intellia is one of the leading companies working to advance in vivo gene editing therapies.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Recently, an international team of researchers brought the future of in vivo robotic surgeons closer to the present day.
    — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2018
  • These can be conducted in vitro (using cells in a laboratory dish) or in vivo (using an animal as a stand-in for humans).
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The combination was developed because the effects in vivo were better than the single molecules alone.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • However, there is still no data on the potency of the antibodies in vivo or in patient bodies, says Kyratsous.
    — Aayushi Pratap, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But a second, more complex method of gene editing involves in vivo alterations to a person’s genetic material.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
  • If a drug passes initial screening tests in vitro, researchers next test it in vivo in live animals to determine the effects of a new drug on a whole system instead of just one cell type at a time.
    — Smithsonian, 31 May 2018
  • Another technique, in vivo exposure, forces you to directly face the object of your fear; perhaps climbing onto a stationary plane.
    — Angela Haupt, TIME, 10 May 2024
  • The team used a combination of techniques for their study to gather critical data on airflow, muscle activation, and rib motion in vivo.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Now, the company is putting greater emphasis on using its technology for in vivo (in a living organism) therapies.
    — John Cumbers, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • However, our study suggests otherwise as magnet response was demonstrated in 3/3 cases in vivo.
    — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • The totality of the data from these studies indicates that molnupiravir is not mutagenic or genotoxic in in vivo mammalian systems.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Mar. 2021
  • An in vivo approach for blindness disorders, where the gene editor is injected into the eye, is also showing tentative benefits.
    — Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The researchers took living, or in vivo, human beta cells and transplanted them into the kidneys of diabetic and nondiabetic mice.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 29 July 2024
  • Tissue clearing, in combination with in vivo bioluminescence, allows a three-dimensional scan of a whole organ, or a whole body, very quickly.
    — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
  • What’s more, the Stanford team used a machine learning algorithm to show that the effects seen in their in vitro experiments also seem to be occurring in living cells (that is, in vivo).
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Mammoth will receive upfront payments of $41 million for the deal, which will make use of its gene-editing Crispr tools to develop in vivo gene therapies for two genetic diseases.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Many questions about the birds’ magnetic compass remain, including whether the magnetic field effects on robin Cry4a observed in vitro also exist in vivo.
    — Henrik Mouritsen, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022

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