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) ...

Learn why African dwarf frogs are considered low risk pets and what care, habitat, and health needs to consider before owning one.

A new initiative will use AI to support frontline health workers, aiming to improve care quality, and reach more patients amid severe health workforce shortages in Africa. 1 The $50 million in funding ...

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 ...