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1Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. john_biggers@hms.harvard.edu
Reproductive Biomedicine Online
|December 10, 2002
Abstract:
This review discusses three topics: (i) the 'back to nature' and empirical optimization approaches to the design of chemically defined media for the culture of preimplantation embryos, (ii) the evolution of the simplex optimized family of media, and (iii) adaptation and stress in preimplantation embryos when placed in chemically defined media.
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