Study on frogs and fish sheds light on human hearing
March 20th, 2011 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): Scientists have turned to fish and frogs to better understand the normal inner ear development in humans.Andres Collazo at the House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, and his team ... Read more...
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Sequencing of frog genome may offer new insights into human diseases
May 7th, 2010 - 1:58 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 7 (ANI): An international team of researchers has cracked the genetic code of an amphibian, the African clawed frog Xenopus tropicali - the latest research aimed at understanding how genes ... Read more...
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Human and frogs share the ‘kissing cousin’ bond
April 30th, 2010 - 3:33 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 30 (ANI): An international team of researchers has cracked the genetic code of an amphibian, the African clawed frog Xenopus tropicali - the latest research aimed at understanding how genes ... Read more...
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The pesticide that turns male frogs into females
March 2nd, 2010 - 3:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 2 (ANI): Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, can turn male frogs into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.According to researchers, ... Read more...
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New aquatic fungus pushing amphibians on road to extinction
November 24th, 2009 - 1:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, November 24 (ANI): Reports indicate that a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many amphibians like frogs and toads extinct.According to a report in Microbiology Today, the fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ... Read more...
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Tadpoles could help fight cancer
January 30th, 2009 - 12:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 30 (ANI): The humble tadpole could provide the key to developing anti-skin cancer drugs, say researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
The scientists have identified a compound which, ... Read more...
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Deadly fungus could bring about mass extinction of amphibians within three decades
April 22nd, 2008 - 2:33 pm ICT by admin
Edinburgh, April 22 (ANI): Biologists have warned that the entire population of the worlds frogs and other amphibians could be wiped out like the dinosaurs by a deadly fungus within three ... Read more...
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