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The natural world a yet-to-be-discovered, untapped bounty of remedies to doctors. The latest discovery from researchers from Georgetown University and other research institutions in the USA. They their exploration of how reptiles waste could help treat human ailments. The scientists analysed the tiny "pee crystals" that reptiles in place of urine to excrete waste. The crystals a solid form of uric acid, which a potentially harmful by-product created when the body breaks down nitrogen in food. Too much nitrogen in our bodies can to health problems like gout and kidney stones. Our bodies most of the uric acid waste away when we pass water.

The study is in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. A team of organic chemists and herpetologists (scientists who reptiles and amphibians) the excreta and waste elimination processes of more than 20 reptile species. They their attention on the excess nitrogen that crystallised into tiny microcrystals. Researcher Dr Jennifer Swift the team's findings could us better understand and uric acid-related problems like gout and kidney stones. She said: "This research was really by a desire to the ways reptiles are able to excrete this material safely, in the hope it might new approaches to disease prevention and treatment."