💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐚💉 Cone #snails pack a #venom with over 1,000 unique peptides – a #chemical toolkit already yielding one #FDA-approved non-addictive #painkiller.

Researchers at #Harvard and the University of #Queensland are now exploring these #toxins for treating #diabetes, nerve damage, #epilepsy, and #cancer, saying they’ve barely scratched the surface.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/cone-snail-venom-medicinal-uses/

#conotoxin #marinebiology #ziconotide #drugs #neurobiology #coralreef #biochemistry #ocean #nature