Stinky frogs are a treasure trove of antibiotic substances

Friday, December 2, 2011 - 05:20 in Biology & Nature

Some of the nastiest smelling creatures on Earth have skin that produces the greatest known variety of anti-bacterial substances that hold promise for becoming new weapons in the battle against antibiotic-resistant infections, scientists are reporting. Their research on amphibians so smelly (like rotten fish, for instance) that scientists term them 'odorous frogs' appears in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research...

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