A research group from the Hiroshima University, and led by Professor Masayuki Sumida, has created what is to be considered the first four-legged animal with transparent skin. The breakthrough was achieved by successively mating two Japanese Brown Frogs (Rana japoinica) and their offspring that carried a recessive mutation giving them pale skin. Having a transparent [...]
Today, during the BA Festival of Science 2007, researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) presented what can be the first correlation between foetal testosterone and autistic traits.
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to fill your car’s tank with salt water instead of the expensive and polluting gas?
Well, it may be closer than you think.
photo by Janet 59 Stem cells can be defined, in a simple way, as cells that have the capacity to renew themselves as well as differentiate into any other cell type in the organism (although every cell shares the same genetic material, as they differentiate, certain genes are turned on or off, giving cells the [...]