The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 2 plus 5 letter word IN VITRO
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result IN VITRO
- Possibly using medium of culture noire, short ITV broadcast
- Briefly ask men to retire somewhere for experiment?
- Come close to inviting troops to go north for what’s in the lab
- Nearly summon troops back using lab equipment
- Like chemical solutions often shortening life in medicine container
- At home to Victoria, with CIA going crazy under laboratory conditions
- Where reaction might occur when opening bars around 6
- Outside body very involved in rioting — bad, not good
- Variation at sea excluding areas where life, for some, began
- Almost call couple of Romans in artificial environment
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