Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in ...

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 ...

But frogs may yet hold clues to killing pain. At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), whose skin is laced with the peptide dermorphin. Although the ...

“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 ...

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 ...