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Human Urine and Frogs: How a Bizarre Pregnancy Test Helped Unleash a Global Amphibian CrisisBritish zoologist Lancelot Hogben was studying African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) when he noticed that their skin color ...
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 ...
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.
It's sometimes easy to forget that molecular biological research was somehow being done before nucleic acid hybridization was commonplace, even before the dawn of the Southern blot. This isn't to ...
The first is traditional cell and molecular biology, focussed on the molecular mechanisms underlying mesoderm formation, and neural crest induction, and tissue and organ patterning, We use the clawed ...
A new chemical treatment allowed African clawed frogs, which normally don’t regenerate limbs, to regrow functional hind legs following amputation. Dan is a News Editor at The Scientist. He writes and ...
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