Two University of Wyoming researchers have found that scaling of cell and nuclear sizes shortly after fertilization contributes to the regulation of gene transcription and cell cycle elongation in ...

A new Griffith study has found that bushfire fighting chemicals commonly marketed as environmentally friendly can severely affect frog development. Published in Aquatic Toxicology, the study assessed ...

Nasa wanted to find out what would happen if that reference disappeared. During a 1992 Space Shuttle mission, live frogs were ...

Frog brains get busy long before they’re fully formed. Just a day after fertilization, embryonic brains begin sending signals to far-off places in the body, helping oversee the layout of complex ...

Leptin, the hormone secreted by fat cells that plays an important role in food intake, has been described for the first time in a cold-blooded vertebrate, the South African clawed frog Xenopus. Leptin ...