How to Use in vitro in a Sentence

in vitro

adverb or adjective
Definition of in vitronext
  • If lab tests found the fish to be healthy, its sperm would be combined in vitro with eggs from wild females.
    — Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021
  • Haas gave birth to a boy through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 2008.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2023
  • So there is to be in vivo – in the living organism – sorry and in vitro.
    — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
  • When in vitro fertilization began in the 1970s, scholars of some of the largest faiths urged caution.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • How do these synthetic gene circuits fare when used on CAR T cells in vitro and in vivo?
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Other oils have been tested on in vitro cells or in rodents, but have yet to make it to human trials.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The circuit court judge dismissed the case on the grounds that an embryo stored in vitro did not count as a person under Alabama law.
    — Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Kaine is said to be bringing Elizabeth Carr, the first person in the US to be born via in vitro fertilization, as his guest.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
  • It is mainly used to create human tissue for research and for drug testing in vitro.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Neva and her wife, Kelsey, were considering using a surrogate or an in vitro method to have a child.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Memphis Meats won a patent earlier this year for an in vitro method of producing cultured meat.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Silvia Fischer and her colleagues grew mast cells from mouse bone marrow in vitro.
    — Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • My best hope of getting pregnant would be with an egg donor through in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
    — Marisa Renee Lee, refinery29.com, 7 May 2020
  • Others include the first person born via in vitro fertilization in the United States and families of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip.
    — Tyler Pager, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The world is changing so quickly, especially in the field of in vitro fertilization.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Freezing eggs is a vital part of in vitro fertilization.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 9 Aug. 2023
  • To make leather in vitro, the company plants to start with a biopsy from a cow, grow the bovine cells in the lab and shape them into sheets of fused cells, perhaps with the aid of a 3D bioprinter, a machine that builds cells into tissues.
    — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2012
  • In a speech that lasted just over five minutes, Wilson said her baby was pronounced dead in vitro seven months into her pregnancy in the late 1960s.
    — Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • But the study was conducted in vitro, not in the body, and looked only at those spike proteins from an infection, not an mRNA vaccination.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • She'd been diagnosed with ocular melanoma, a rare eye cancer that had the potential to spread and cross her placenta to infect the babies in vitro.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Isaacson reports Zilis’ pregnancy was via in vitro fertilization, with Musk as the sperm donor.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • So one very exciting example of what can be one with AI today is to actually design your drugs in vitro right?
    — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
  • The study was conducted in vitro and is not comparable to in vivo research, Urrialde said.
    — Carla Delgado, Verywell Health, 5 July 2023
  • The in vitro process would be conducted using sperm from dead rhinos that is stored in Berlin and eggs extracted by surgery from the females at Ol Pejeta, the conservancy said.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Then Familia Torres viticulturists grew the vines in vitro, and later in the winery’s nursery.
    — Ian Mount, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Cultured meat has already gone by a number of different names, including clean meat, in vitro meat, lab meat, and vat meat, none of which sound very appetizing.
    — Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
  • So that will be in vitro and in vivo work in animals, and then validating that in human lactation studies.
    — STAT, 21 June 2019
  • Now, the recipient of the uterus is having periods and making plans for a family of her own via in vitro fertilization.
    — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Other studies have been done in lab animals, or in vitro (meaning in a test tube, using animal brain tissue).
    — Dan Nosowitz, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
  • If a drug passes initial screening tests in vitro, researchers next test it in vivo in live animals to determine the effects of a new drug on a whole system instead of just one cell type at a time.
    — Smithsonian, 31 May 2018

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