Sentences with phrase «case of fertilized egg»

Not exact matches

With regard to Callahan's comparison of the lives of PVS patients with the lives of «fertilized eggs,» I would simply note that once an egg has been fertilized it is no longer an egg but a new living being, and in the case of the human species, a new human being — surely a being of incomparably greater value than an «egg.»

In the case of zebrafish, less than 20 percent of fish produced by injecting DNA into fertilized eggs will transmit the foreign gene to the next generation.

In most cases, this is how the process unfolds: «Through an IVF cycle, you take the egg from the mom and fertilize it with the dad's sperm, then transfer the embryo into the uterus of a gestational carrier,» explains reproductive endocrinologist Naveed Khan, MD, of Shady Grove Fertility in Leesburg, Virginia.

Luteal Phase: During this phase, a rise in progesterone maintains the thickened wall of the uterus in case an egg is fertilized.