For thousands of years, animal venoms have been used in traditional medicine. Today , many of their compounds, specifically from snakes, are being examined for their potential in therapy. Here, we...
Artificially designed cone snail insulin analogues reportedly bind better and more strongly to the human insulin receptor than the naturally occurring human insulin hormone. Plaguing around 463...
Researchers at UC San Francisco and the University of Queensland have discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the "wasabi receptor," a chemical-sensing protein found in nerve cells that's...
