Discover Magazine: Frog Skin Secretions Could Yield Antibiotic Bonanza.
“These potent compounds, collectively known as antimicrobial peptides (which are strings of amino acids), are not only found in frog skin secretions, but in a range of other animals as well (us included) where they do triple duty warding off wave after wave of bacterial, viral, and fungal broadsides. think of them as the body’s own antibiotics.” So, frog secretions may prevent us from ... croaking.
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