Treating Flu with Skin of Frog

Glands in frog skin secrete substances that possess broad antimicrobial function. Holthausen et al. mined this soup of natural products and discovered a peptide that destroys diverse human influenza strains (Holthausen et al., 2017). This study points the way to the discovery of novel anti-influenza molecules targeting conserved elements on influenza surface proteins.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca
Treating Flu with Skin of Frog
Source: Viral Bioinformatics

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