On Hold: Genes That Pause Pregnancy Discovered in some female mammals at http://t.co/NVJ3Wb7jlf I'd like a bottle of that! #ka-ching
April 24, 2013
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On Hold: Genes That Pause Pregnancy Discovered
Female mice (and other mammals) have the ability to "pause" their pregnancies until conditions are favorable for giving birth.CREDIT: Jeeyeon Cha, S. K. Dey lab, Division of Reproductive Sciences, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation Unlike human women, female mice and some other mammals can delay the onset of their pregnancies, and researchers have now identified the molecular mechanism behind this remarkable ability.