fertilize
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That is, it’s low if you go through the full process of having your eggs retrieved at 44, fertilized, and then an embryo implanted.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Scientists have reconstructed a remarkably detailed family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo, tracing their origins back to the moment a fertilized egg first divided into two cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The 26 hatched chicks were grown from fertilized tissue transferred from hen’s eggs into the new container, which functioned essentially as an incubator.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
He was enamored with the Russian giants, writing in 1953 that “those fertilized by both Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, who understand them both equally well,” have “an always formidable nature, with themselves and with others.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The female Polistes wasp, taking shelter in a forgotten corner of some attic, carries in her body the fertilized eggs, the heritage on which the whole future of her colony depends.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
