In preimplantation diagnosis, eggs are fertilized in vitro and allowed to develop for five or six days to the so -
called blastocyst stage.
Not exact matches
The smaller eggs from overweight and obese women were less likely to reach a crucial
stage of development
called the «
blastocyst», which occurs around five days after fertilisation when the embryo resembles a hollow ball of cells.
At the so -
called «
blastocyst stage,» when the embryo might be destroyed to derive embryonic stem cells, he or she is already a living, individuated organism.