
Hearing the name of the frog, you may feel a bit disgusted with the animals on this one. But make no mistake, an animal that can live on land and in water was found to cure cancer you know?
Scientists led by Prof. Chris Shaw from Queen's School of Pharmacy, England managed to identify two proteins frogs to cure cancer.
Two waxy monkey frog proteins can inhibit the growth of blood vessels and kill cancerous tumors. The research team also found that the fire-bellied toads produce proteins that can stimulate blood vessel growth.
This type of protein that one can actually help patients recover from injury in a faster time. "The results of this research has the potential to treat diseases that require blood vessels, improve quickly as wound healing, organ transplants, patients with diabetic wounds, and damage due to heart disease and stroke," he added.
So far, scientists and drug companies around the world have invested about trillions of dollars to develop drugs that effectively control and regulate blood vessel growth.