Thread: Before refrigeration, Russians kept the milk fresh by dropping live brown frogs straight into their milk buckets. The frog’s presence kept milk from spoiling, but no one knew why.
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Until Albert Lebedev, a scientist from Moscow State University decided to look into it... pic.twitter.com/P5o93UWd5A
Thread: Before refrigeration, Russians kept the milk fresh by dropping live brown frogs straight into their milk buckets. The frog's presence kept milk from spoiling, but no one knew why.
Until Albert Lebedev, a scientist from Moscow State University decided to look into it...
What he found is extraordinary. The skin of brown frogs, Rana temporaria, releases a unique secretion packed with potent antibacterial and anti-fungal peptides, making it a natural defence mechanism against both bacteria and fungi...
Albert Lebedev describes these chemicals as "enormously active", and his team has identified 76 different peptides in the frog's slimy coating. Some of these might even help create new antibiotics or medicines in the future. More in:
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Peasant ingenuity! See, this is why we shouldn't just ignore the poors. They have so much homespun wisdom to teach us.
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