Scientists find simple copper complex shuts down botulinum neurotoxin poisoning
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 - 11:32
in Biology & Nature
Botulinum neurotoxin is probably best known to Americans as BOTOX, a cosmetic medicine, rather than as a cause of potentially dangerous foodborne illnesses. Lesser known is that Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes the neurointoxication, produces one of the most potent toxins on earth and is classified as a potential bioterrorism threat.