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    Frogs protect themselves by secreting chemicals that kill germs on their skin. The theory is that some of these chemicals could be used as antibiotics. Researchers in the United Arab Emirates asked colleagues across the world to swab any frog they found and send them their secretions. They identified more than a hundred germ-killing chemicals. But many of these newly-identified chemicals are toxic, So the next step will be to adapt them to make them benign to patients but lethal to bacteria

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    Frogs protect themselves by secreting chemicals that kill germs on their skin. The theory is that some of these chemicals could be used as antibiotics. Researchers in the United Arab Emirates asked colleagues across the world to swab any frog they found and send them their secretions. They identified more than a hundred germ-killing chemicals. But many of these newly-identified chemicals are toxic, So the next step will be to adapt them to make them benign to patients but lethal to bacteria

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    Witn Frog Antibiotics

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    Frogs protect themselves by secreting chemicals that kill germs on their skin. The theory is that some of these chemicals could be used as antibiotics. Researchers in the United Arab Emirates asked colleagues across the world to swab any frog they found and send them their secretions. They identified more than a hundred germ-killing chemicals. But many of these newly-identified chemicals are toxic, So the next step will be to adapt them to make them benign to patients but lethal to bacteria

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    BBC Learning English

    Words in the News


    30th August 2010
    Scientists examine frog antibiotics

    Scientists trying to develop a new range of drugs are starting to study a creature which has
    been around for over 200 million years. They're taking part in a research project which will
    try to replicate the natural defences of... frogs. Pallab Ghosh reports:

    Frogs protect themselves by secreting chemicals that kill germs on their skin. So the theory is
    that some of these chemicals could be used as antibiotics.

    To find out, researchers in the United Arab Emirates asked colleagues across the world to
    swab any frogs they found and send them their secretions. They received samples from more
    than six thousand different species and identified more than a hundred germ-killing chemicals.

    Because they've not been used to combat human diseases before, it's hoped that they might be
    able to kill bacteria that had become drug-resistant.

    One problem though is that many of these newly-identified chemicals are toxic. So the next
    step will be to adapt them to make them benign to patients but lethal to bacteria.

    The researchers point out that their work highlights the importance of preserving frog
    diversity. They say that many species whose skin might contain potentially valuable
    medicinal substances may become extinct soon because of a loss of habitat and water
    pollution.

    Pallab Ghosh, BBC science correspondent

    Words in the News © British Broadcasting Corporation 2010


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    Vocabulary and definitions

    secreting releasing

    germs organisms that cause disease

    antibiotics drugs to cure infection

    swab take a small sample from

    combat fight against

    drug-resistant able to remain unaffected by drugs

    toxic poisonous

    benign safe

    frog diversity a variety of types of frog

    extinct no longer existing

    More on this story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11101278


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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/08/100830_witn_frog_antibiotics_page.shtml

    Words in the News © British Broadcasting Corporation 2010


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