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“Killer snails offer new drug hope”

February 6th, 2010 | Posted in Medical | Author: Editor

“Poisonous sea snails found off Australia’s coastline could be carrying the world’s next generation of pain killing drugs.  The snails have a cocktail of powerful agents in their venom, which they use to immobilise their prey, explains Professor David Adams who is director of the Health Innovations Research Institute at Melbourne’s RMIT.  Research is under way to isolate those agents – peptides – which, he said, could be used safely to treat pain in humans as a less problematic alternative to morphine”

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