Posted on 05/03/2022 5:10:07 PM PDT by algore
Emma Califf, lifts up a rock in a plastic box. “This is one of our desert hairies,” she said, exposing a three-inch-long scorpion, its tail arced over its back. “The largest scorpion in North America.”
This captive hairy, along with a swarm of inch-long bark scorpions in another box, and two dozen rattlesnakes of varying species and sub- species across the hall, are kept here for the coin of the realm: their venom.
The techniques used to process venom compounds have become so powerful that they are creating new opportunities.
“We can do assays nowadays using only a couple of micrograms of venom that 10 or 15 years ago would have required hundreds of micrograms,” or more, Dr. Fry said. “What this has done is open up all the other venomous lineages out there that produce tiny amounts of material.”
There is an enormous natural library to sort through. Hundreds of thousands of species of reptile, insect, spider, snail and jellyfish, among other creatures, have mastered the art of chemical warfare with venom.
Moreover, the makeup of venom varies from animal to animal.
Venom is made of a complex mix of toxins, which are composed of proteins with unique characteristics. They are so deadly because evolution has honed their effectiveness for so long — some 54 million years for snakes and 600 million for jellyfish
The growing catalog of compounds has led to a number of drug discoveries. As the components of these natural toxins continue to be assayed by evolving technologies, the number of promising molecules is also growing.
“Things are accelerating because a small number of very good laboratories have been pumping out information that everyone else can now use to make discoveries.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Get bit by a Mamba and in less that one hour, you’ll never have anything ail you ever again.
Homeopathy is essentially what this describes
Cool. Just took an assignment in Mississippi.
Think I’ll sleep in the Cotton Field outside my hotel tonight and see what happens.😉 🕷
When managerment say you to stay within hotel grounds, they means it, suh!!
When management cautions you to stay within hotel grounds, they means it.
Hard to get a microgram of a toxin with any normal laboratory apparatus.
Of course, the solution is always dilution.
When I was 3 years old I played in the yard and ate spiders.
Yeah that is a hard amount to nail down just right...
But its still homeopathy, regardless
Same thing at different doses, can either heal, or damage
,”I don’t like spiders and snakes”
😉
Yes. Toxins are frequently made into homeopathic remedies.
Depends.
There are those who believe that c19 is nothing but synthesized reptile venom, and the illness venom poisoning.
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