Healing Burns with Frog Foam

Mar-28-16 Researchers are developing an antibiotic delivery system inspired by frog foam that could help reduce infection and treat severe burns.

The system is based on the foam secreted by Tungara frogs, which lay their eggs in nest made of the foam to protect them from disease, stress and predators. When researchers from the University of Strathclyde began analyzing the foam, they found that it can absorb drugs and then release them at a steady rate. Most significantly, they found that the foam was able to release the antibiotic vancomycin, without damaging human skin cells.

The team is now investigating ways to create the foam in the lab.

Image: Brian Gratwicke

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