Spider Venom Recipe Could Be Key to Antidote

Brown recluse spider venom is powerful enough to destroy human tissue, at times leading to gangrenous lesions. Now, after figuring out the venom’s ingredient list, scientists are an important step closer to finding an antidote.

Spider venom concoctions have inspired everything from environment-friendly pesticides to treatments for arthritis and erectile dysfunction, so it’s likely the newly identified recipe will have pharmacological applications beyond the cure for bites.

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Tagged as: Antidotes, Arthritis, Brown Recluse Spiders, Erectile Dysfunction, Gangrene, Human Tissues, Pesticides, Pharmacology, Spider Venom, Spiders, Tissues, Venom

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