Long before plastic test sticks appeared in drugstores, a living frog could reveal a pregnancy overnight. Doctors inject ...

In 1938, researchers published a pregnancy test using the African clawed frog that was roughly 98% accurate. Urine from a ...

Optogenetics has helped researchers better understand the brain and is enabling new treatments for neurological conditions ...

Every cell in a developing tissue faces a decision. In the embryonic skin of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, ...

Deep in the mountain fynbos of South Africa, a frog smaller than a fingernail is quietly rewriting what scientists thought ...

The true nature of that seemingly grotesque back was the 'ultimate cradle' to ensure the children survive in waters filled ...

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have developed two new artificial intelligence models of the biological cell. The first, called universal cell ...

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As each year draws to a close, we show our Carnegie pride with a holiday card featuring original artwork from a member of our ...

Its strange, star-shaped toes. In a study published last month in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, researchers show the Suriname toad’s toes are highly tuned sensory organs that function ...

Surinam toads lie in wait with outstretched forelimbs until a small fish approaches, then snap open their jaws to create enough suction to draw the fish into their tongueless mouths and swallow it ...