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Instead, scytodes sort of lurks around and waits for prey to get close to it, and then immobilizes prey by spraying a silk-like venom onto that insect.
Evidently, a piece this big of tentacle has a hundred-thousand little barbs on it and each barb is not just stinging your skin, it's sending a venom.
And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system.
The box jellyfish, the deadliest venom in all of the ocean, is in these waters, and I have come close to dying from them on a previous attempt.
Similarly, jellyfish package their venom safely in harpoon-like structures called nematocysts.
Rattlesnakes and other types of vipers manufacture special proteins that bind and inactivate venom components in the blood.
Grasshopper mice resist painful venom from scorpion prey through genetic changes in their nervous systems.
But we had considered all the venom, and we had practiced with a whole variety of different spiderwebs.
So like a person blindly rooting about in a bag, she finds the brain, and she injects it with venom into two very specific clusters of neurons.
Israeli scientists Frederic Libersat and Ram Gal found that the venom is a very specific chemical weapon.
The roach could walk away or fly or run if it chose to, but it doesn't choose to, because the venom nixes its motivation to walk, and only that.
They're recruited from the poorest, most broken places on our planet by a school that believes they can become not just the good but the excellent physicians their communities desperately need, that they will practice where most doctors don't, in places not only poor but oftentimes dangerous, carrying venom antidotes in their backpacks or navigating neighborhoods riddled by drugs, gangs and bullets, their home ground.
This is a $4 billion industry based on venom from a Brazilian snake, and the Brazilians did not get a nickel.
I mean, obviously when you have something all the way through your hand, it's kind of bad anyway, but in this case, sea urchins have a venom on them that, if you've ever tangled with them, you know that a sea urchin spine in you gives you horrible, painful inflammation.
Because we are reactive to the heightened venom of the political debate, you get governments that have an us-versus-them mentality, tiny groups of people making decisions.
When we look at an animal like this remipede swimming in the jar, he has giant fangs with venom.
Well, pretty soon they were barraged with enraged letters, death threats, ban on the topic in a number of scientific journals, coming from irate left-handers and their advocates, and they were literally afraid to open their mail because of the venom and vituperation that they had inadvertently inspired.
In there, she has a pair of venom glands that are attached to a pair of fangs, and those fangs are folded into her mouth.
So, without those fangs and without this venom, Sophie would have never managed to survive.
Now, many animals have evolved venom systems in order to survive.
Nowadays, any species of venomous snakes, any species of spider, any species of scorpion, has its own venom signature, if you will, made out of dozens, if not hundreds, of chemical compounds.
Now, venom can actually act in many different ways.
You see, venom is that kind of huge library of chemical compounds that are available to us, that are produced by hundreds of thousands of live creatures.
Once they're asleep, we run a tiny little electric current through their body and that contracts their venom glads.
Then, under a microscope, we can see a tiny little droplet of venom appearing.
Because spiders are completely unharmed during the process, it means that a few days later, once they've produced a little bit of venom again and they've recovered, we can release them back into the wild.
It takes literally hundreds of spiders to just produce the equivalent of one raindrop of venom.
And once we have it, we freeze it, and we then pass it in a machine that will separate and purify every chemical compound that is in that venom.
Just a half a millionth of a liter of a venom, diluted 10,000 times, is still capable of killing most bacteria that are resistant to any other kind of antibiotics.
And animals like snakes and scorpions use constrained peptides in their venom.
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