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Scientists discover 'pause button' for human life

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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Berlin and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna have discovered a way to artificially trigger a diapause-like-state in human stem cells and blastoids.

By slowing down the production of a protein involved fetal growth, they were able temporarily halt the fertilized embryo from growing at its earliest stage - about a week after conception.

The researchers were able to maintain the embryos in this dormant state for 18 days , after which they reversed the pause to resume normal growth.

They published their study this month in the journal Cell .

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