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A method which could help decrease animal testing is the use of in vitro batteries, where several in vitro assays are compiled to cover multiple endpoints. Within developmental neurotoxicity and reproductive toxicity there are hopes for test batteries to become easy screening methods for prioritization for which chemicals to be risk assessed ...
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation in which an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating a woman's ovulatory process, then removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from her ovaries and enabling a man's sperm to fertilise them in a culture medium in a laboratory.
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Wikipedia's list of medical abbreviations provides a comprehensive guide to Latin abbreviations used in the medical field.
The term in vitro (lit. "within the glass") means the samples to be tested are obtained from a repository. In the case of cancer cells, a strain that would produce favorable results, then grown to produce a control sample and the number of samples required for the number of tests.
Messing up pronunciations can be a source of both annoyance and amusement, but language learning platform Babbel has put together a handy guide to stop you putting your foot in it.
Texas billionaire Elon Musk has bought a $35 million compound in Austin. Sources say he intends to raise his children there with two of their mothers.
Capitalize scientific names above the rank of species, and italicize them from the rank of genus downward. Common (vernacular) names of species and other groupings are lower case except where they contain a proper name. Names of standardized domesticated varieties/breeds may be capitalized, but not informal landraces or types.