Who gets to decide if a blastocyst is a child or not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [inkblurt · O Solo Veto] Reference

They come from a 5-day-old, ball-shaped embryo called the blastocyst, and not from fetuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference

Kazan says: hey Ed Schultz – a blastocyst is not a baby. an embryo is not a baby, a featus is not a baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks ‘Are You Going To Kill Me?’] Reference

Pro-choice, in comparison, infringes upon the rights of no one else (and no, a blastocyst is not a person).    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bush Nominates Anti-Regulatory Zealot To Head ‘Super-Powerful’ Public Safety Office] Reference

I know that a fetus, embryo or blastocyst is not a baby … or a person, they just have the potential to become one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Holding up the health care bill, Rep. Gohmert shouts, ‘I brought an abortion to show you today.’] Reference

It's a stretch to call a blastocyst an embryo; but oh well.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

I believe the only thing that preceeds a blastocyst is a zygote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Significant Number Of Recent Medical Breakthroughs Have Involved Embryonic Stem Cells] Reference

(A blastocyst is the size of the period at the end of this sentence.).    From Wordnik.com.  [CampusProgress.org] Reference

At this stage, an embryo is called a blastocyst and has about 150 cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [All MayoClinic.com Topics] Reference

Is called a blastocyst from five days to two weeks, then called an embryo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference

The blastocyst is a very early-stage embryo not yet implanted into the womb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

Inside the blastocyst is the Inner Cell Mass (ICM), made up of embryonic stem cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cell Funding Ban: Five Years On] Reference

This led to an early-stage embryo, called a blastocyst, from which stem cells were then derived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tailor-Made Stem Cells] Reference

A blastocyst is the cell mass initially formed when human eggs are fertilised and a source of stem cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

These cells then begin to specialize, forming a hollow sphere of cells, called a blastocyst (second panel, purple).    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

A blastocyst, which is to say an early embryo, is approximately the size of the period at the end of this sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cell Research Is Not Murder] Reference

That a blastocyst is a baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Michaelson: A Better Way to Believe in God] Reference

A blastocyst is a microscopic clump of cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Michael J. Fox: ‘I Could Give a Damn About Rush Limbaugh’s Pity…I’m Not A Victim’] Reference

When sperm meets egg, a microscopic blastocyst is formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don C. Reed: How Not to Have Sex in Colorado: the Personhood Amendment] Reference

And after five or six days, the egg turned into a blastocyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2004] Reference

By exalting the blastocyst, we are diminishing the rights of the mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erica Jong: President Bush and the Blastocyst] Reference

It is biologically impossible for an unemplanted blastocyst to become a baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don C. Reed: Joan of Arc, and the Trial of Stem Cell Research] Reference

As a matter of fact, they say their embryos are at a stage called a blastocyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2001] Reference

QUESTION: And you are checking expression on single cells from a blastocyst (ph)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2001] Reference

This is an actual blastocyst that will become a fetus once it's implanted in a woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2006] Reference

By then, stem cells had formed inside the blastocyst, which a scientist then removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2004] Reference

Cells from the blastocyst would be extracted and left to multiply in a laboratory dish.    From Wordnik.com.  [VIEW FROM THE LAB: HARNESSING STEM CELLS] Reference

Not all 6-8 cell embryos make it to the blastocyst stage; only about a quarter or so do.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Cosmic Variant] Reference

ESCs are extracted from a blastocyst, the four - to five-day-old pre-implantation embryo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cell Funding Ban: Five Years On] Reference

So, where were these self righteous protectors of the blastocyst while all that was going on?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Real Stem-Cell Twister] Reference

Scientists have not yet managed to get the stem cells from the blastocyst to grow and thrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eleventh Hour: Who Needs Clones?] Reference

HESCs are harvested from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst, which consists of 30-34 cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANNIES CHASE] Reference

MOORE: Yes, what we are dealing with here is embryos, it is actually called in this stage, a blastocyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2001] Reference

That is, from a blastocyst a cell can be derived and that blastocyst can still go on to make a normal organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2001] Reference

The egg, which now contains your genes, would divide and, after several days, develop into a 200-cell blastocyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [VIEW FROM THE LAB: HARNESSING STEM CELLS] Reference

I would restrict the federally funded research using embryonic stem cell derived from blastocyst to a limited number of cell lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2001] Reference