News tagged with frog embryo

The face of a frog: Time-lapse video reveals never-before-seen bioelectric pattern

For the first time, Tufts University biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that reveals ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Sequencing of first frog genome sheds light on treating disease

A pair of University of Houston researchers contributed to the assembly of the first comprehensive DNA sequence of an amphibian genome, which will shed light on the study of embryonic development, with implications ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists report first genome sequence of frog

A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the University of California, Berkeley, is publishing this week the first genome sequence of an amphibian, the African ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Frog embryos associate the smell of predators with danger

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in the US and Canada has found that frogs can learn to associate the smell of predators with danger, even as embryos.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 weblog

For different species, different functions for embryonic microRNAs

(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. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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