Frog Foam May Help Deliver Drugs to Human Skin A new study suggests the concoction created by mating amphibians may help dispense medicine slowly over time Raleigh McElvery - Freelance Writer ...

Chronic diabetic skin ulcers are notoriously slow to heal, but an otherwise-wasted material may soon help change that. Scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have ...

Fish skin has been used in the same approach previously. Frog flesh is a common food in Singapore, where the skins of farm-raised bullfrogs are typically discarded during processing.

Frogs, she explained, have specialized granular glands in the skin that produce and store packets of peptides, small protein-like molecules.