Snail Venom Inspires Powerful Pain Reliever

I always love hearing about new discoveries that have their roots in nature. In this case, a new pain reliever that works better than morphine but without addiction.

http://news.discovery.com/human/snail-venom-painkiller.htm

Just some cool stuff

 

So how do we present this into the Blazer's medical staff?

 

hahaha, I meant this to be posted in OT section. But damn if Roy couldn't have played a couple more seasons if he had only harnessed the power of the snail.

 

I know of an oncology drug that comes from a parasite found in sea cucumbers. It's crazy how biodiversity can be helpful.

 

Hell, even aspirin comes from the willow tree. I was listening to a Ted talk a long time ago, don't recall which one but they were talking about the biodiversity that exists in places like the Amazon, which is now being cut down little by little, reducing the availability to hundreds of thousands of organisms that exist only in that one local. Anyway, the Ted talk was trying to calculate the number of potential breakthroughs that get cut down daily.

 

witchdoctors?

 

i'm tripping snailballs man