New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a ...

The protein effectively acts as a “toxin sponge” by soaking up and storing the poison, protecting the frog from its own lethal toxins. The scientists concluded that this toxin sponge could ...

"It works like a nanomechanical sponge," he says. "I've done trace analysis, and the water's totally clean." A graduate student of Edmiston's stumbled upon the material while experimenting with ...

For polyketides, one of the most important groups of sponge-derived drug candidates, we have developed a general strategy that allows one to rapidly access biosynthetic gene clusters based on ...

“The sponge isn’t just a disguise, as they are well known for having a very good set of chemical defences to protect themselves from predation. Many produce toxins or otherwise obnoxious chemicals to ...

Instead, it tackles a single type of toxic venom protein: the three-finger toxins, named after the physical structure that the proteins fold into. They're a major component of the venom of such ...