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TIL: A Venomous Animal May Save Your Life | Today I Learned


nature’s deadliest animals are the
biggest life savers there is a Brazilian
pit viper or the Scirocco pit viper and
if this snake will bit you you will die
because the snake venom stops the
circulation of your blood but the same
venom opened up a new class of
medications it’s taken by 40 million
patients worldwide today we have
approximately 20 different medication
coming from venomous animals these venom
toxins are perfect template for
medications we sequence the genetic
blueprint of the toxin
it gives us the luxury to vary that
toxin in whatever way we wish this is
like a goldmine for medicine we have 20
million toxins left unexplored in nature
zabba lean means the garbage people they
moved in from the countryside when they
were displaced by agro industry and they
realized that if they couldn’t do their
farming on their land they could farm
the city
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