Sentence examples for growing embryo from inspiring English sources

The growing embryo derives continuous nourishment from the mother, usually through a placenta or similar structure.

During the earliest stages of foetal development, the nervous system consists of a hollow tube running along the back of the growing embryo.

As the human cells grow alongside the pig cells, the growing embryo learns to treat them as its own, and thereby not reject them.

Because the cells come into close contact with each other, they can communicate in almost exactly the same way as they would in the growing embryo.

When Therese visits Carol's home for the first time, Carol offers her a glass of warm milk that tastes of "bone and blood, of warm flesh, saltless as chalk yet alive as a growing embryo".

In many plants the growing embryo consumes the endosperm before seed maturation; in others, the tissue persists in the seed, providing a reserve for the developing seedling after germination.

Mifepristone is an antiprogestin; that is, it blocks the action of progesterone, a naturally produced hormone that prepares the inner lining of the uterus for implantation of a fertilized ovum and support of a growing embryo and placenta.

In most mammals the blastula attaches itself to the uterine lining, thus stimulating the formation of a placenta, which will transfer nutrients from the mother to the growing embryo.

Why, researchers ask, would growing embryos in petri dishes elicit changes in gene expression?

That does not mean that growing embryos in petri dishes will have such effects, but it does raise questions about what is known about the procedure.

If mouse embryos are even close to reflecting what can happen with humans, then there is no question that gene expression can be altered by growing embryos in a laboratory, Dr. Schultz says.