The team of researchers led by Prof. Kristian Franze found that increasing tissue stiffness induces the expression of chemical signals that are typically absent in those regions. Semaphorin 3A is one ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex organism. It underpins the diversity in the animal ...

There was a very strange tradition back in history where people used frogs to correctly identify if a patient was pregnant – ...

State Officials including the Governor's Office said this week they're proclaiming February 23-27 as Invasive Species Week. It's not just insects, either. Ever seen an Asian Carp (fish)? An African ...

How do you feel about a pet that you can't pet? NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Anne Fadiman about her new collection of essays, "Frog And Other Essays." ...

A gene duplicated in the evolutionary past has been shown to act as the master switch that determines whether embryos develop as male or female in the African clawed frog. That finding reveals how ...

Tiny Asian small-clawed otter pups practice swimming, learning life skills with joy. Exclusive: Pentagon warns Anthropic will "pay a price" as feud escalates 'Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now' actor ...

In the 1930s, scientists began shipping African clawed frogs around the world for pregnancy testing. What they didn’t know was that the frogs carried a deadly fungal pathogen. That fungus would go on ...

Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the characteristics to match. New research from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) ...

The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (NCAFF) community is mourning the loss of one of their oldest otters. The aquarium announced that Asta, their oldest Asian small-clawed otter, passed away ...

For decades, the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) played a surprising and essential role in human medicine. Native to the still waters of southern Africa, these smooth-skinned, flat-bodied ...