Chemists have found potential drugs and other really useful compounds in some truly bizarre places in nature, and who would have ever thought that blood from the Komodo dragon could have a secret inside of it that could possibly save your life. But it doesn't end there, so we're taking a closer look at other wild places in nature that we've found fantastic drugs! Special Thanks to Schoolyard Films for giving us the awesome Horseshoe Crab Blood milking footage.
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- Biofilms -Ìý
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- Antimicrobials in Komodo Dragon blood -Ìý
- VK25 inspires the DRGN-1 peptide -Ìý
- MRSA is getting crazy -Ìý
- Dendrilla Membrosa -Ìý
- Darwinolide Story -Ìý
- Darwinolide -Ìý
- 3-15% die, based on interviews with biologists -
- Evolutionary info on horseshoe crabs -
- The original 1956 paper by Frederick Bang that got everything going -
- How Blue Blood coagulates around endotoxins -
- Crab Bleeding -Ìý
- LAL v TAL -Ìý
- Hemocyanin -Ìý
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