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Crocodile blood shows anti-HIV activity: SCIENTISTS in Australia’s tropical north are collecting blood from crocodiles in the hope of developing a powerful antibiotic for humans, after tests showed that the reptile’s immune system kills the HIV virus.

(Via mongabay.com.)

And from the same site:

Frogs may help in fight against HIV: A new weapon in the battle against HIV may come from an unusual source — a small tropical frog.

Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center reported this month in the Journal of Virology that compounds secreted by frog skin are potent blockers of HIV infection.

Now all I’m saying is that I hope when the scientists splice our genome to improve our immune system, I hope we come out like:

and not like:

Reptiles are cooler than frogs.

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