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For different species, different functions for embryonic microRNAs

For different species, different functions for embryonic microRNAs

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When evolution has lucked into efficient solutions for life’s most fundamental problems, it adopts them as invaluable family heirlooms, passing them down as one species evolves into another. ...





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Frog in Pepsi can -- it's the real thing: FDA

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A Florida man who cracked open an ice cold can of Pepsi "indeed" found dismembered remains of a frog, the US Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.


Scientists discover how an injured embryo can regenerate itself

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created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

[B]Keep its organs in relative proportion[/B] More than 80 years have passed since the German scientist Hans Spemann conducted his famous experiment that laid the foundations for the field of embryonic development. After div ...


Frog provides insight into making specialised cells from stem cells

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created Aug 27, 2006 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The African clawed frog could help stem cell scientists in obtaining insulin-releasing cells of the pancreas from stem cells, new research published in the latest issue of the journal Development suggests.


Research reveals old timers in the frog world

Research reveals old timers in the frog world

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at Victoria University has revealed remarkable longevity in wild populations of New Zealand native frogs, particularly in the threatened Maud Island frog (Leiopelma pakeka).


Red-eyed Treefrog Embryos, Showing Their Bright Red External Gills

Red-eyed treefrog embryos actively avoid asphyxiation inside their eggs

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created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Boston University undergraduate Jessica Rogge and associate professor Karen Warkentin, working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's laboratories in Gamboa, Panama, discovered that frog embryos ...


Project launched to fight frog-killing fungus

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Researchers are heading to Central America to develop ways to fight a fungus blamed for the extinction of dozens of frog and amphibian species.


Smithsonian scientists find the frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Scientists find frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States. Scientists ...


Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs (AP)

Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs

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created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday.


Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment

Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Embryos that are most likely to result in a pregnancy are crucial to the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) but are difficult to identify. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine, led ...


Single embryo implants work better: study

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created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Implanting single embryos into the wombs of women seeking to boost fertility is more effective and less costly than placing two embryos at a time, a pair of studies released Wednesday found.



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