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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hainan province, bordered by some 2 million square kilometers of ocean, has unveiled plans to establish a tropical marine ...

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) ...

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

Je Kyung Seong can still remember what it felt like to be the first lab-animal professor at a medical school in South Korea. In addition to pursuing his own research, he had to set up a campus-wide ...

Microtubule asters in cytoplasmic extract of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. The spatio-temporal growth of the aster is coordinated by cell cycle waves that drive the polymerization (brighter ...

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 ...

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