blastocyst

Converse of object

• call: Front and back At six days old, the embryo, now called a blastocyst, consists of only a few hundred cells.
• clon: Evidence of a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned blastocyst.

Adjective modifier

• human: Like the UK, nuclear transfer and subsequent implantation of cloned human blastocysts is not permitted in Korea.

Modifies a noun

• embryo: The blastocyst embryos that are used for stem cell isolation can be grown in vitro from embryos produced by IVF.
• stage: New techniques allow embryos to develop to blastocyst stage in the laboratory.
• transfer: Also, we're hoping to go for blastocyst transfer if I produce enough eggs... So a bit of a different approach.
• mouse: When injected into an early blastocyst mouse embryo, single cells can contribute to most, if not all somatic cell types.

Noun used with modifier

• -deficient: The researchers then went on to assess whether ES cell lines could be derived from the Cdx2 -deficient blastocysts.