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Image of the Day: Brainless Frogs
Image of the Day: Brainless Frogs
Without a brain, the frog embryo immune system doesn’t receive the signals it needs to mobilize macrophages and fight infections.
Image of the Day: Brainless Frogs
Image of the Day: Brainless Frogs

Without a brain, the frog embryo immune system doesn’t receive the signals it needs to mobilize macrophages and fight infections.

Without a brain, the frog embryo immune system doesn’t receive the signals it needs to mobilize macrophages and fight infections.

immune system, developmental biology

Amazonians Offer Clues to Human Childhood Development
Shawna Williams | Jul 1, 2018 | 4 min read
A study of Shuar children in Ecuador provides a window into how the human body responds to infection in the sorts of conditions that shaped our species’ evolution.
Fetal Immune System Operational by Second Trimester
Abby Olena, PhD | Jun 14, 2017 | 3 min read
Research shows that human immunity develops much earlier than previously thought, but functions differently in adults.
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