8 Venomous Creatures We Use To Make Drugs
They bite, they sting and they hurt but they also help cure diseases.
When you think venomous snake, the last thing that comes to mind is saving lives. However, scientists have found a way to make the deadliest creatures here on earth seem much friendlier. There are all kinds of different venoms, from the venom of toad skin to the sting of a cone snail, all the way to the modified saliva of a snake. Some can affect the nervous system neurotoxins others can affect tissue and blood haemotoxins and some can concern muscles or the heart myotoxins and cardiotoxins. Certain animals can even bear a combination of these toxins. Regardless of the types, all these toxins werent good news - that is until scientists got involved. Researchers have managed to extract good from what we thought was all bad. Now venoms can help cure excessive bleeding, strokes, neurological diseases and even cancer and ageing in some cases. Here is a small guide to venom based drugs and the creatures we got them from.