Xenopus, meaning "strange foot," is a genus of more than 20 frog species native to sub-Saharan Africa. When biologists discovered in the early 20th century that these frogs were unusually ...

The common laboratory frog Xenopus laevis has puzzled researchers because it has twice the normal number of genes. A newly published genome sequence shows why: between 15 and 20 million years ago ...

Xenopus frogs were also less expensive to raise and easier to maintain than rodents, and the test seemed to be nearly 100% accurate.

Xenopus can tolerate these infections, but most other frogs aren’t so lucky. Bd has now spread across six continents and has killed countless populations of frogs in its wake.

Scientists are making use of Xenopus tadpoles to study autism risk genes. Scientists have discovered that a lack of iron in pregnant mice can alter the sex development of embryos, challenging ...

Moreover, Xenopus oocytes have been used to good effect in screening small pool cDNA libraries for novel cell cycle regulators. 39 A similar approach, using the NIR dye as an apoptotic indicator ...

Xenopus laevis, also known as the African clawed frog or platanna, is an important model organism that is used in the study of vertebrate cell and developmental biology.

What’s new — The skin of a Xenopus frog is covered in cilia, tiny hairlike structures, which redistribute mucus across their skin. It’s an adaptation to keep bacteria and fungi at bay.

muffet Pregnancy tests did not always come in an easy-to-use, sterile kit that provided almost immediate results. Less than a century ago, women had to rely upon frogs instead. In 1938, Dr. Edward ...

Early last year, a team of researchers announced the world's first living machines —bundles of stem cells from African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) that could be programmed to accomplish ...

They are named for the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis, which supplies all their cells, and the suggestion, encapsulated in the prefix, that something strange, alien, is at work.