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How Poisons Help Heal

  • January 24, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Some animal venoms can be used to make helpful drugs. For example, the strong, nonaddictive painkiller ziconotide comes from a toxic cone snail, while snake venom has yielded the heart drug tirofiban and blood-pressure meds called ACE inhibitors.

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