Poison dart frog neurotoxin synthesized
Friday, November 18, 2016 - 08:31
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers from Stanford University has synthesized the neurotoxin present in the skin of the poison dart frog. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how they accomplished this feat, the steps involved and what they found when they also synthesized a mirror image of it.