embryo stage

"The program is very much at the embryo stage," she said.

They were still in the embryo stage, unimportant in themselves.

"We're in the embryo stages in interpreting ethnic history.

Anything below the embryo stage is standard-rated.

No plan to seize the Chinook had ever grown beyond the embryo stage, for there was a strict routine when supplies were flown in.

That was the embryo stage."

Occasionally males are selectively killed at the embryo stage by bacteria known as Wolbachia.

The planning is in its embryo stage as the Springboks, re-emerging on the world scene after eight years exile, juggle home and away trips.

A tiny percentage made it past the embryo stage, and a few struggled along for a year or two before their horrific deficits caught up with them.

All in all, everything points to the globular clusters being relics of an embryo stage in the galaxy's life.

He declined to comment, saying only that the national fraternity office was in the "embryo stages" of selecting lawyers in Austin to defend the case.

In this case, PCBs have an affect on young fish (as mentioned, at the embryo stage).

The severely polluted habitat of the Hudson River most likely placed selective pressures on the tomcods, particularly in the embryo stage.

Biotechnology has also opened up many new prospects for the early diagnosis of particular diseases at the embryo stage and for treatment at the same stage.

At the early embryo stage, Herman was genetically engineered in a laboratory by Gen Pharm International of Mountain View, California.

"Their young remain in the womb until physical development is sufficiently advanced for them to survive birth into their incredibly savage environment, and during the embryo stage they are telepathic.

These sporelings develop via an embryo stage from a fertilized egg inside an archegonium and depend on the gametophyte for their early stages of growth before becoming independent sporophytes.

The journey's scientific purpose was to secure Emperor Penguin eggs from the rookery near Cape Crozier at an early embryo stage, so that "particular points in the development of the bird could be worked out".

Starting off in the embryo stage, as a small, tentacled creature, you must find a lone marine, crawl down his throat and eat your way out of his stomach, then sneak off to a quiet spot where you can grow into adulthood.

The European Parliament was overwhelmingly against any cloning, including at the embryo stage, and we believe that the use of the Dolly process on human beings should be made a criminal offence everywhere in the world, and at least in our Member States.

Gattaca 's premise is the creation, in the not-so-distant future, of a genetic elite whose DNA has been rejiggered at the embryo stage to eliminate dispositions to such traits as premature baldness and attention-deficit disorder while heightening cheekbones and IQs.