An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism. In organisms that reproduce sexually, embryonic development is the part of...

implanted embryo is detected by the presence of increased levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a pregnancy test. The implanted embryo will receive...

embryology, cleavage is the division of cells in the early development of the embryo, following fertilization. The zygotes of many species undergo rapid cell...

Embryo transfer refers to a step in the process of assisted reproduction in which embryos are placed into the uterus of a female with the intent to establish...

Cryopreservation of embryos is the process of preserving an embryo at sub-zero temperatures, generally at an embryogenesis stage corresponding to pre-implantation...

culture medium in a laboratory. After a fertilised egg (zygote) undergoes embryo culture for 2–6 days, it is transferred by catheter into the uterus, with...

Embryo donation is one disposition option for users of in vitro fertilisation with remaining fresh or frozen embryos. It is defined as the giving—generally...

formation of the human embryo. It is characterised by the processes of cell division and cellular differentiation of the embryo that occurs during the...

Embryo quality is the ability of an embryo to perform successfully in terms of conferring a high pregnancy rate and/or resulting in a healthy person. Embryo...

Embryo loss (also known as embryo death) is the death of an embryo at any stage of its development which in humans, is between the second through eighth...

Embryo space colonization is a theoretical interstellar space colonization concept that involves sending a robotic mission to a habitable terrestrial planet...

In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and nutrient reserve enclosed in a seed coat, a protective outer covering called a testa. More generally, the term...

Embryo culture is a component of in vitro fertilisation where in resultant embryos are allowed to grow for some time in an artificial medium. The duration...

Look up embryo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An embryo is an organism early in its development. Embryo may also refer to: Embryo (film), a 1976 American...

Embryo splitting may refer to: when spontaneous, the natural way in which identical twins are formed. when artificially induced, a method of cloning. See...

Embryo rescue is one of the earliest and successful forms of in-vitro culture techniques that is used to assist in the development of plant embryos that...

Embryo is a 1976 American science fiction horror film directed by Ralph Nelson starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, and Diane Ladd with a cameo appearance...

the body in which it would normally be found, such as the growth of an embryo or fetus outside the mother's body, or the growth of bacteria outside the...

Embryo is a world music band from Munich, West Germany (now Germany) that began in 1969. Its origins have even been traced to the 1950s in the city of...

Embryo drawing is the illustration of embryos in their developmental sequence. In plants and animals, an embryo develops from a zygote, the single cell...

will impact an embryo is dependent on several factors, such as how long the embryo has been exposed, the stage of development the embryo was in when exposed...

diagnosis (PGD or PIGD) is the genetic profiling of embryos prior to implantation (as a form of embryo profiling), and sometimes even of oocytes prior to...

In human embryonic development, a pre-embryo is a conceptus before implantation in the uterus. The word pre-embryo is sometimes used in ethical contexts...

which the embryo and later fetus develops in amniotes. It is a thin but tough transparent pair of membranes that hold a developing embryo (and later...

fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own,...

Time-lapse embryo imaging is an emerging non-invasive embryo selection technique used in reproductive biology. It is used to help select embryos with lower...

chick embryo culture is the process of growing chick embryos in vitro, without their protective egg shells, for scientific observation. Chick embryos and...

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm...

Shengtai (聖胎, "sacred embryo" or "embryo of sagehood") is a Chinese syncretic metaphor for achieving Buddhist liberation or Daoist transcendence. The circa...

been interpreted as embryos; embryos are also common throughout the Cambrian fossil record. Taphonomic studies indicate that embryos are preserved for longest...