Natural abortions are typically called miscarriages. Medically-induced abortions, which can be completed with surgery or with hormone drugs, are performed because the foetus is unwanted, deformed, not likely to live, or endangers the mother's life or health.
The dog genome project is a collaborative study involving scientists at the University of California, The University of Oregon, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center aimed at producing a map of all of the chromosomes in dogs, which can be used to map the genes causing disease and those genes controlling morphology and behavior.
Now we have a map with nearly complete coverage of the canine genome, and this will allow us to take advantage of the dog as a model system.. Matthew Breen at the Animal Health Trust in the U.K. and Francis Galibert at the University of Rennes in France head the other two groups in the genome project.