Talk:Embryo

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Pmanderson in topic Etymology
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It would be useful to add information regarding legal issues arising from the increased practice of freezing embryos. For example, the legal ramifications in the event of divorce with respect to allocation of embryos is an increasingly popular topic as more individuals have turned to this form of assisted reproductive technology in recent years.


Ahowel10 (talk) 16:41, 8 September 2021 (UTC)Andi Howell

need to include the latest research on the ‘synthetic embryos’ and mechanical womb

here's some sourcesnews about synthetic embryo https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/03/scientists-create-worlds-first-synthetic-embryospaper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00981-3paper on mechanical womb that enabled natural mouse embryos to grow outside the uterus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03416-3 Kaveinthran (talk) 08:12, 4 August 2022 (UTC)


Etymology

The present section appears to be substantially Original Research, although research from sources. The OED disagrees with it in detail, seeing a confusion of two distinct High Medieval Latin forms, one related to βρύον moss. Neither of them are in Latin -us, -um.

If I see no objection the next time I come by, I will take it out. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)