#Antimicrobial peptides

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News “Feed a cold, starve a fever,” or so the adage goes. But fruit fly experiments suggest that sleep may be a better remedy. A microbe-fighting protein helps control how much and how deeply fruit flies sleep, researchers report in the Feb. 1 Science.

Source: HuffPost Komodo dragons, the 10-foot, 300-pound lizards found in Indonesia, do not bite humans unless attacked, but when they do, it can prove deadly. Not only is the venom in their teeth potentially fatal, they may also harbor bacteria in their mouths that is dangerous to their prey

Author: Matt Blitz / Source: Today I Found Out For centuries, before refrigeration, an old Russian practice was to drop a frog into a bucket of milk to keep the milk from spoiling. In modern times, many believed that this was nothing more than an old wives’ tale. But researchers at Moscow State