Health & Medicine
Creepy Crawlers' Powers: Spider Venom to Give Hope to Human Medicine?
There are 46,000 spider species in the world, and around 22 million distinct venom compounds, now collectively termed as "venome." Through the lens of molecular biology, the spider venom is now being understood and explored for possible pharmaceutical drugs and anti-venoms that can be formulated from it.
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