http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Thu, 23 May 2013 16:34:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/04/29/xenopus_genome/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/04/29/xenopus_genome/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:00:43 +0000 Robert Sanders http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=3304 The African clawed frog, Xenopus, has helped scientists understand how embryos develop and the many chemical reactions going on inside dividing cells. Now, scientists report the first draft genome sequence of Xenopus, setting the stage for a more complete genetic analysis of this popular frog. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/04/29/xenopus_genome/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:49:36 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=3898 The herbicide atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, screws up the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by UC Berkeley's Tyrone Hayes. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/feed/ 0