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The beetle in the frog's diet supplied the killer painkiller
A scientist holds the last trace of a frog skin extract that might contain a painkiller 200 times stronger than morphine - how did that expose them?
The beetle in the frog's diet supplied the killer painkiller
In this episode, we follow the seventeen-year hunt for a mysterious analgesic molecule found in a poison arrow frog and the baffling failures to reproduce it. The narrative traces fieldwork, lab limits, and a dietary clue that reframed the whole search; can a frog’s food chain explain the missing compound?
Person: John W. Daly
Person: Charles Myers
Species: Epipedobates anthonyi
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