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Human Urine and Frogs: How a Bizarre Pregnancy Test Helped Unleash a Global Amphibian Crisis
The African clawed frog is an evolutionary marvel — an entirely aquatic species with powerful hind legs, flattened bodies, ...
The Scientist5y
Image of the Day: Scrambled Frog Eggs
When Xenopus frog eggs are experimentally ruptured, their cytoplasm rearranges itself to form compartments similar to cells, according to a study published October 31 in Science. The researchers, led ...
Business Insider India7y
Frogs used to tell women if they were pregnant - here's how the test worked and why it was popular for decades
The "Hogben test" got its start in 1930, when British biologist Lancelot Hogben began looking into what he called a godsend for hormone research: The African clawed frog, or Xenopus laevis.
Nature5y
Marked swelling with coalescing ecchymoses of the lower mandible in a Xenopus laevis frog
A female African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, was housed at the Biological Resources Facility of North Carolina State University in a tank with two other females. The frog was ∼1.5 years old and ...
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Thousands of frogs ‘massacred’ on R44
Frog Friends Helderberg, a group lobbying for the conservation of frogs, said more can be done when it comes to migration during rainfall. This is after thousands of Common Platanna frogs (Xenopus ...
University of Delaware5mon
Andre Luiz Pasqua Tavares
Our goal is to determine the role of the transcription factor SIX1 and SIX1-associated genes in de velopment of the cranial bones, jaws and ear using transgenic mice and Xenopus (frog). Our ...