Tadpoles and medicine

Our little tadpole friends help us explore God's amazing design of  the world, and His creatures help us to live better lives when we study them. Below are links to some pretty amazing tadpole research.

Here is a link to a news story on curing melanoma cancer.

BBC NEWS Health

Tadpoles could hold the key to developing effective skin cancer drugs according to researchers at the University of East Anglia.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/785193...

Here is another link to spinal column regrowth and tadpoles.

Feb. 28, 2007

Courtesy Forsyth Institute and World Science staff

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070228_regeneration.htm

And another link to tadpole brain chemistry and treatment for human ailments such as Parkinson's and other illnesses related to neural stimulation.

Light Triggers a New Code for Brain Cells by Susan Brown November 12, 2008

http://biology.ucsd.edu/news/article_111208.html

More than skin deep. After exposure to constant light,
cells in the pale tadpole’s brain adopted a new chemical
code to control its skin pigments.

Credit: Norma Velazquez Ulloa Armando de la Torre and Krista Todd