blastula

On the first screen I thought I saw a chick or a frog taking shape, though the creature would palpitate into an egg, a lumpen lime or a blastula of germinating cells.

But before you can say blastula, his wife — he begins by calling her Clo, then just goes with her real name, Jen — is crying all the time and sending all-caps texts about pretzels.

Ryden has peopled Ratmansky’s stage with furry animals that look like fairground prizes, a gum-ball lady resembling a blastula, and various creatures that slither on the floor and wag their ears.

Just after this—at the mid-late blastula stage—the cells synthesize large RNA molecules, which are believed not to include ribosomal RNA but which are likely to include "messenger" RNA.

In removing a blastula, you are indeed destroying something, but what exactly — a potential life?