coli and MRSA. Ground-up extracts of brains and other nerve tissues from the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, and the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, were able to kill over 90 per ...

Cockroaches have some of the worst PR in the animal kingdom. With a better agent, their story could be that of a hardy insect that has successfully thrived on every continent except Antarctica.

Nguyen says, “The more American we become ... that still fights everyday to be completely and undeniably free to a cockroach — “the hated race, persecuted and confined” — soon to ...