The treatment of diabetes could be about to take a leap forward with the help of a South American frog. A compound found on the skin of the paradoxical frog - so called because the tadpole is much larger than the adult - boosts the production of insulin. Scientists have made a synthetic version of the compound which they hope to turn into a pill to treat Britain's two million sufferers of type 2 diabetes.
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Is this frog the answer to diabetes? - Daily Mail 3rd March 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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