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Frog skin germ-fighting substances for new antibiotics

By Damir Beciri
31 August 2010

frog-skin-substances-for-antibioticsEven witchdoctors in the past knew that some frog skins contain germ-fighting substances since they manage to live in swampy and hostile environments. A group of scientists, led by Michael Conlon, Ph.D., noted that modified frog skin substances could be used against the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, which have the ability to shrug off conventional… »