Studying the African turquoise killifish, which enters into a suspended state called 'diapause' during dry and unfavorable growing seasons, researchers uncovered mechanisms that allow the arrested ...

Diapause was first identified in 1854 after hunters in Europe noticed that pregnancy in roe deer seemed to last a lot longer than normal.

Rather, diapause seems to involve an intermittent dialogue, with the uterus rebuffing the embryo’s attempts to implant until the time is right. For all its quirks, though, ...

Researchers have induced a senescent-like state in worms, providing a model to explore how senescence can be triggered and ...

Diapause, commonly referred to as the ‘pause button’ for embryo development, is a mechanism to temporarily pause embryo development during unfavourable conditions.

So, yes—according to this test, in theory, human pregnancies could enter a diapause-like state if properly induced. “This potential may be a vestige of the evolutionary process that we no ...

More than 100 mammals, from bears to mice, have the ability to undergo embryonic diapause. The mechanism is thought to be triggered by unfavorable environmental conditions, ...

He caught some female monarchs already in diapause there and shipped them back to his lab at the University of Chicago, where he was a graduate student. There, he kept them in conditions that ...