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Little lab of horrors

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Enzymes from insect-eating plants could give us new antibacterial products.

Carnivorous plants are not the first organisms to come to mind when searching for biomedical compounds. Yet, like something from science fiction, researchers are discovering enzymes in the digestive fluids of carnivorous pitcher plants that could prove useful in controlling infections.

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  1. Hatano, N. & Hamada, T. J. Prot. Res. doi:10.1021/pr700566d (2008).

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Kaplan, M. Little lab of horrors. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.546

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