AMES, Iowa – At a Biotechnology Council event a few years ago, Nicole Valenzuela’s ears perked up when she heard what a group of researchers in Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine ...

HEBRON -- Ten-year-old Lauren Freeze got a turtle from her grandfather's pond, named him Speedy and hoped he'd be speedier than the other 91 turtles at the annual Hebron Turtle Derby. The Turtle Derby ...

Iowa State University professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology Nicole Valenzuela, right, holding an adult painted turtle inside her lab, with research scientist Itzel Sifuentes-Romero. A ...

Researchers developed protocols for growing organoids that mimic a turtle liver, the first organoids developed for a turtle and only the second for any reptile. The discovery will aid deeper study of ...