Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in early testing. Frogs have thrived for hundreds of millions of years, adapting ...

Pet frogs need very specific care to stay healthy and thrive. If you’ve got a little frog in your life, you’ll know that they ...

“Frog skin is frankly baloney,” said Kim Lewis from Northeastern University in Boston. “The scientific community has gone through tens of thousands of AMPs and not a single one of them made it through ...

“To have a drug that works as well [as opioids] but is actually targeting a completely independent receptor system is really ... At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog ...

and Greening's frog (Corythomantis greeningi). Both are found in Brazil and produce skin secretions like other poisonous frogs - but these species have spiny bone protrusions that make their poison ...

The Bd zoospores use a chemical combination to break down a frog’s skin enough for the fungus to enter, so McMahon and her team then focused on whether they could activate the immune system and create ...