Evolutionary history of three-finger snake toxins decoded

Hope for treatments for type 2 diabetes and hypertension

11-Oct-2023 - Snakebites cause around 100,000 deaths worldwide every year. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have investigated how the toxin emerged between 50 and 120 million years ago through the modification of a gene that also occurs in mammals and other reptiles. The results could ...