How to Use in vivo in a Sentence

in vivo

adverb or adjective
  • So there is to be in vivo – in the living organism – sorry and in vitro.
    Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
  • This study is provocative enough to call for further in vivo studies.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2010
  • But, these findings have not been replicated in vivo in humans.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The study was conducted in vitro and is not comparable to in vivo research, Urrialde said.
    Carla Delgado, Verywell Health, 5 July 2023
  • There are experimental antivirals that have been used in vitro and in vivo.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
  • So that will be in vitro and in vivo work in animals, and then validating that in human lactation studies.
    STAT, 21 June 2019
  • The goal of my thesis is to investigate an in vivo model of a premature aging disorder.
    Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • 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
  • Recently, an international team of researchers brought the future of in vivo robotic surgeons closer to the present day.
    Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2018
  • However, there is still no data on the potency of the antibodies in vivo or in patient bodies, says Kyratsous.
    Aayushi Pratap, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • To test the synthetic cells in vivo, mice received a transplantation of ovarian tumor cells and received a CAR T cell treatment 21 days after.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Other teams are also testing in vivo gene editing to treat various diseases.
    Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 16 Sep. 2022
  • These can be conducted in vitro (using cells in a laboratory dish) or in vivo (using an animal as a stand-in for humans).
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Mammoth will receive upfront payments of $41 million for the deal, which will make use of its gene-editing Crispr tools to develop in vivo gene therapies for two genetic diseases.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This underlying problem of access may require other improved technologies such as the use of mRNA to modify cells in vivo, as well.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Intellia is one of the leading companies working to advance in vivo gene editing therapies.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This is known as in vivo therapy, where the editing tools can be administered directly into the body, compared to ex vivo editing, where cells are removed from the patient, treated and returned back into the body.
    Katie Jennings, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The team used a combination of techniques for their study to gather critical data on airflow, muscle activation, and rib motion in vivo.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2022
  • To target these areas, Mammoth is focusing on two proteins — Cas14 and Casɸ — which could be particularly helpful for in vivo gene editing because of their ultra-small size.
    Katie Jennings, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Many questions about the birds’ magnetic compass remain, including whether the magnetic field effects on robin Cry4a observed in vitro also exist in vivo.
    Henrik Mouritsen, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But a second, more complex method of gene editing involves in vivo alterations to a person’s genetic material.
    Markham Heid, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
  • That way, scientists can study cancer development in vivo.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Now, the company is putting greater emphasis on using its technology for in vivo (in a living organism) therapies.
    John Cumbers, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The totality of the data from these studies indicates that molnupiravir is not mutagenic or genotoxic in in vivo mammalian systems.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Novartis has recognized the importance of this and is working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on an ambitious project to deliver gene medicines in vivo — or directly into the body — instead of via the current complex ex vivo process.
    Jayasree K. Iyer, STAT, 12 July 2023
  • An in vivo approach for blindness disorders, where the gene editor is injected into the eye, is also showing tentative benefits.
    Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 16 Sep. 2022
  • To find out whether dog hookworms are resistant to any of these drugs, Kaplan began a series of laborious in vitro and in vivo tests on hookworm samples from three dogs with stubborn infections, including one greyhound named Worthy.
    Bradley Van Paridon, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • However, our study suggests otherwise as magnet response was demonstrated in 3/3 cases in vivo.
    Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Tissue clearing, in combination with in vivo bioluminescence, allows a three-dimensional scan of a whole organ, or a whole body, very quickly.
    Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
  • Scientists working on in vivo Crispr therapies have zeroed in on the liver as an initial target because many genetic diseases are associated with it.
    WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022

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