Pick Your Poison: Cobra Venom Shows Therapeutic Promise

Cobra venom is among the more noxious toxins in the animal kingdom--potent enough to fell an elephant. But researchers have found that tacking a snippet of protein from cobra venom onto human immune molecules is a novel and effective way of suppressing inflammatory chemicals involved in several difficult-to-treat ailments, such as rheumatoid arthritis, heart attacks and strokes. [More]

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