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Published online 31 January 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.546
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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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interesting! It seems that those carnivorous plants are more brilliant than I have imagined
Nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception, and that the senses are only the inlets, through which these images are conveyed, without being able to produce any immediate intercourse between the mind and the object. D.Hume brilliant! Thus plants are more interesting. Lukas
...nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception, and that the senses are only the inlets, through which these images are conveyed, without being able to produce any immediate intercourse between the mind and the object. D.Hume brilliant! Thus plants are more interesting. Lukas