Skin Cancer Drugs

Developmental similarities from a 350 million year old ancestor, the xenopus frog, may lead to new drugs for the effective treatment of skin cancer. Cell movement in frog development is similar to humans. Researchers caution that drug treatments may be ten years away. See article.

Xenopus frogs, tadpoles, tropicalis, albino frog FACILITYBLOG

Welcome. We'll not pretend to be the definitive FROGBLOG, but would like to have a fun forum. I invite all comments-this will keep things interesting. If things get wacky or go off topic, please don't be alarmed. Your faithful editor has been involved, in varied degrees, with xenopus frogs for almost 30 years and witnessed most of "what can happen will happen" highlights of frog husbandry. Quite to the point: My father, Robert D. Weymouth started Xenopus 1 in 1977 or so. So, let the posts begin!