Sentences with phrase «implanted as an embryo»

The cell's nucleus was removed, transferred into an egg from which the DNA had been removed, cultured and then implanted as an embryo into the womb of a surrogate sheep.

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But organizers of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnancy.

Moreover, it is often combined with «preimplantation genetic diagnosis,» in which a cell is removed from IVF embryos and tested for medical or eugenic failings — as well as for the sex — so that only embryos with desired attributes will be implanted.

If too many embryos implant, the next step may be «selective reduction,» the abortion of one or more gestating babies — or, as I once heard an industry rep put it, «turning triplets into twins.»

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

The resulting embryo is implanted and a healthy baby (at least as regards mitochondrial diseases) should be born.

One or more of these embryos is implanted in a surrogate (sometimes known as a gestational carrier), who carries the child or children to term, but has no genetic relationship to them.

Once you enter the fourth week of your pregnancy, the embryo has implanted itself well inside the uterus and started to grow at full pace and your body is also secreting a hormone known as hCG or human chorionic gonadotropin hormone.

If you're pregnant as a result of a fertility treatment such as Clomid, gonadotropins, or in vitro fertilization (IVF), you'll probably have an ultrasound within the first eight weeks to count the number of embryos that have implanted.

«This represents a tiny proportion of the embryo's total mass and as far as we can tell CGH has no impact on its ability to implant,» says Wells.

As mtDNA is transmitted exclusively from the egg cytoplasm, all embryos created by this method could be genetically screened and only male embryos implanted.

Using sensitive laboratory tests, embryos can be detected as they implant into the womb about one week after fertilisation.

When transferred into a woman's womb, however, only a minority of these embryos implant in the lining of the uterus, also known as the endometrium.

Just as in the first report, the researchers used embryos that have three copies of each chromosome and would not grow into a baby if implanted in a uterus.

As well as making the embryo more likely to implant, such effects may also reduce the chances of a fetus being rejected later on in pregnancy, she sayAs well as making the embryo more likely to implant, such effects may also reduce the chances of a fetus being rejected later on in pregnancy, she sayas making the embryo more likely to implant, such effects may also reduce the chances of a fetus being rejected later on in pregnancy, she says.

These cells are known to dampen down inflammation, a process that may be important for allowing embryos to implant in the womb, rather than being rejected as a foreign body.

«The use of genome - editing techniques in this context is really the same as using any other method on an embryo that is not going to be implanted into a woman, and which will be destroyed after a few days of culture».

More recently, we have begun to screen IVF embryos before they are implanted in cases when we know children risk inheriting one or other of the nastiest results of nature's meddling, such as cystic fibrosis.

We found that when the tumor was transplanted into the respiratory membranes, it elicited the same growth - promoting effects on the sympathetic ganglia as it did when it was implanted in the embryo itself, providing convincing proof that the tumor was releasing a soluble factor that was carried in the bloodstream to the embryo.

The identity of the cells was further confirmed by lineage tracing experiments, where the reprogrammed cells were implanted in chicken embryos and acted just as neural crest cells do.

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

Those embryos were then destroyed for stem cell research, but they could just as readily have been implanted toward an attempt at bringing the embryo to birth.

IVF is a process whereby eggs are fertilised with sperm outside the body (in a «test tube», as it's more commonly known), after which the resulting embryos are implanted into a female to gestate.

As they implant and their placenta develops, the embryos are then called fetuses.

In the process, the donor cells are merged with egg cells extracted from other dogs, zapped with an electrical current to spur splitting, then implanted in more dogs who serve as surrogates, carrying the embryos to pregnancy.