Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$25,543.00

Award Date

9/28/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Polyploidy resulting from the fertilization of an egg by more than one sperm will be fatal to an embryo. Fertilization of an egg by two sperm will results in a triploid embryo. Triploidy is detected in ~10% of spontaneous abortions and the majority of tri