The platypus has long fascinated scientists, with its weirdly unique assortment of features making it one of the most unusual animals on the planet. Now a team of Australian researchers has found that ...

Platypus milk could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The idea of the existence of a duck-billed, egg-laying, beaver-tailed and venomous mammal was thought laughable by the English ...

Platypus milk is the unlikely source of a protein that could help fight off infections, according to a group of scientists in Australia. The growing use of antibiotics over the past century has led to ...

The milk of the platypus can bring us one step closer in fighting against the super bugs. The Unique properties in the milk include a ringlet-like structural protein. The findings of this study are ...

According to researchers, milk obtained from the duck-billed platypus could soon be used to fight antibiotic resistance. The new study report was published in the journal Structural Biology ...

Katherine Hignett is a reporter based in London. She currently covers current affairs, health and science. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2017, she edited a medicine industry newspaper and its ...

The milk of the platypus may contain a protein that can fight drug-resistant bacteria. Now, a new analysis of that protein reveals that its shape is as bizarre as the shape of the animal that excreted ...

Modern medicine has done a great job at creating antibiotics to fight infection — in fact, it might be doing too good of a job. As antibiotic use has spiked over the past century or so, the potential ...

A breakthrough discovery has found platypus milk could save lives from deadly super bugs. The mammal could have the qualities in their milk to fight against anti-bacterial resistance. Research ...

Platypuses are, plainly put, oddly shaped — those flat bills, beaver-like tails and venomous spurs. Now it seems an unusual ringlet-like protein in their milk could help in the fight against superbugs ...

Modern medicine has done a great job at creating antibiotics to fight infection — in fact, it might be doing too good of a job. As antibiotic use has spiked over the past century or so, the potential ...