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 ...

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.

Many animals can regenerate lost tissue during at least part of their life cycles. Studies of Xenopus frogs and other amphibians have found that limb regeneration involves bioelectrical signaling at ...

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 ...

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 ...