1.   But in custody battles over fertilized embryos, courts have favored the special respect status.

2.   Fertilized human embryos like these, some consisting of as few as one or two cells, sit in frozen storage in many laboratories.

3.   In those newly fertilized embryos are all-purpose cells just getting ready to specialize into a host of functions.

4.   Of the nine fertilized embryos the Lams produced in this cycle, five showed signs of retardation.

5.   The team soon plans to begin collecting more fertilized embryos from clinics in two other cities in Sweden, Hamberger said.

6.   There is ZIFT, for zygote intrafallopian transfer, in which fertilized embryos are transferred to the tubes.

7.   Transfer requires flushing fertilized embryos from prized donor cows and implanting the embryos in surrogate host cows for gestation and birth.

8.   She regularly is mated with prize bulls, and the fertilized embryos are removed and placed in surrogate cows for additional breeding.

9.   The infants, Riccardo and Samantha, came from artificially fertilized embryos, he said.