Turning Tarantula Venom into Pain Relief | UC Davis Health Research

Описание: Researchers at UC Davis are developing a new type of pain medication from an unusual source — tarantula venom. The project is part of the NIH initiative Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL Initiative), aimed at ending opioid addiction and creating non-addictive therapies to treat pain. Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, a professor of physiology and membrane biology, and Heike Wulff, a professor of pharmacology, are leading the 20-person team using computational biology to turn a poisonous peptide into one that can relieve pain. Peptides are smaller versions of proteins. Tarantulas were filmed at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, located on the UC Davis campus.

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