Let’s see, in just the past few weeks, I’ve exposed how dogfish and ticks are harboring inner ingredients that might soon be rescuing all of humanity from maladies and madness. This week, I’m thematically compelled to offer what might be the strangest emerging curative this side of Calcutta.
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and Rajiv Gandhi Center in Poojapura, India, are homing in on utterly unique peptides found in the slime of a rare Indian frog.
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