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Viable

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VIABLE, Vitae habilis, capable of living. This is said of a child who is born alive in such an advanced state of formation as to be capable of living. Unless be is born viable he acquires no rights and cannot transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he bad never been born.
     2. This term is used In the French law, Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. tome 4, p. 101 it would be well to engraft it on our own Vide Traill. Med. Jur. 46, and Dead Born.


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Once infective, eggs can remain viable in the environment for years and are resistant to most decontamination methods (5).
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The problem is, even the most sophisticated cells operate at 30 percent efficiency--and those are in research labs and very costly to fabricate--while those that are commercially viable operate around 15 percent.
 
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