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“Komodo dragons" are the type of lizards living in Indonesian island of Komodo.
Komodos generally eat carrion, which may be tainted with disease, but they rarely succumb to illness. Investigations showed that this is because the lizards’ blood is loaded with antimicrobial peptides, or AMPs – an all-purpose immune defence.
The dragon blood – along with blood extracted from alligators and other reptiles have been studied in Virginia’s George Mason University during the last 5 years.
The hope is that those AMPs could be used as antibiotics to beat the growing number of resistant bacteria threatening hundreds of thousands of human lives around the world.
