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© Samantha Nixon/University of Queensland The venom from a Fraser Island funnel-web spider is showing promise as a potential drug candidate to help heart attack victims.

1 posted on 07/20/2021 11:25:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

This sounds familiar .... BRB


2 posted on 07/20/2021 11:27:52 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: Red Badger
Mañana, always mañana.
If wishes and "buts"
were candy and nuts,
oh what a party we'd have!

3 posted on 07/20/2021 11:30:27 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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To: Red Badger

But in the mean time it’ll just kill you.


5 posted on 07/20/2021 11:40:36 AM PDT by Track9 (Dealing with democrats is like living without toilet paper. )
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To: Red Badger
Israeli deathstalker scorpion

Isn't that the name of a missile defense system we bought for them back in the Bush years?

6 posted on 07/20/2021 11:48:22 AM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: Fred Nerks

Scientists in Australia, home to some of the most poisonous creatures on Earth>>>>>>>>>>>

Coming soon to Fred’s Pharmacy?


7 posted on 07/20/2021 11:49:34 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Red Badger

You mean its now a black notawidder?


9 posted on 07/20/2021 12:16:30 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Red Badger

Brazilian Wandering Spider gives one an erection... for a while.


11 posted on 07/20/2021 1:08:04 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: Red Badger

FReepers wanting to avoid a trip through msnland, and all that implies, can find the original article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/20/spider-venom-heart-attack-study/


16 posted on 07/20/2021 4:27:30 PM PDT by upchuck (I am not afraid of the Chinese Virus or variants. I AM afraid of the unproven "vaccines.")
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