venom
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After brainstorming suitable targets with Claude, the team settled on designing a synthetic protein that could serve as an antidote to scorpion venom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Riffing on the human need for emotional engagement through the arts with such venom is not just a slap in the face; it’s evidence of Iñárritu’s gnawing insecurities.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The venom peptides that snakes and snails use are built as closed loops, which is what lets them survive intact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
They use their potent venom to kill prey and are not considered dangerous to people because humans don’t look anything like food to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“The poison used on Thalia’s pine is something from the Underworld, Percy. Some venom even I have never seen. It must have come from a monster quite deep in the pits of Tartarus.”
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
Backshall studied at Canterbury Christ Church, carrying out research into venoms from amphibians, and later received an honorary doctorate from the university.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The scientific research in those cases involved work around the mosquito-born chikungunya virus, a "highly-pathogenic" strain of the bird flu, a family of viruses that include smallpox and mpox, venoms and other toxins.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
They found the same 12 "families" of peptides and proteins in all the hymenopteran venoms analyzed.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023
The useful proteins in these venoms act as anticoagulants, naturally preventing platelets from sticking together.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2021
About stings and venoms and beginnings and endings and all the creatures that no one else seems to understand.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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