Most everyone recognizes frogs. Frogs, like salamanders and newts, are amphibians. Unlike salamanders, they have made a major evolutionary detour from the body plan of their ancient ancestors. The ...

Red-eyed tree frogs, Agalychnis callidryas ... of genes as a “blueprint”—the coded DNA strands dictate to our cells exactly what to do and when to do it—biologists are coming to terms ...

Then he and Blackiston selected the most viable designs to construct out of frog cells. Kriegman needed the computer to determine the optimal position and shape for these cellular motors in the ...

Biological robots made from frog cells can replicate by smooshing loose cells into new robots—a reproduction method not seen in any other organism. Chloe Tenn is a graduate of North Carolina State ...