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The Peruvian Green Velvet Tarantula’s Gift
"Toxineering," a new method developed by investigators at the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale, may be used to screen millions of spider toxins for safe pain-killing drugs and therapies. With it, Michael Nitabach and his colleagues have identified a protein from the venom of the Peruvian green velvet tarantula that targets an ion channel linked to neuropathic pain.
Source: The New York Times