Sentences with phrase «venom which»

Although he is proficient in hand - to - hand combat he is addicted to the drug Venom which he learned greatly increases his strength and speed.

The problem with snake bites is not just the venom which can be deadly, but also secondary infection.

2016 Hennessey Venom GT Leading the pack will be Hennessey's flagship hypercar, the Venom GT now boasting a maximum power output of 1451 bhp @ 7200 rpm, a gain of 207 bhp over the previous generation Venom which clocked a top speed of 270.4 mph at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2014.

Although the venom of the diamondback isn't particularly toxic, the size of the snake allows a larger capacity of venom which is released from its two prominent fangs.

Not exact matches

While Venom deals with virtualization platforms — thus affecting cloud providers and their users — Heartbleed affected OpenSSL encryption, which is the encryption layer that is used to protect much of the web.

Venom, which is short for Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation, is basically a bug in popular data center software that if exploited enables cybercriminals to gain remote access to any virtual machine in a data center.

If atheists are so happy and confident with the choices they have made, why are they so apparently unhappy (judging on the venom in their posts)» Have you ever had the opportunity to live in a society in which 90 % of the populace believe in something that you find to be fanciful in the extreme?

I am still shocked at the venom with which some readers respond to the thoughts of believers... believers who would rejoice in their accepting Christ, and the attainment of everlasting life.

Perhaps the true source of the Nazi venom against the Jewish people is that for which or for Whom the Jews are to survive.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

ZO ® OSSENTIAL ® GROWTH FACTOR SERUM PLUS contains dipeptide diaminobutyroyl benzylamide diacetate, which is a synthetic version of snake venom.

«Well, there's one thing not being able to escape the shadow of Iraq immediately, though I think historians will be kinder to him, but there's another to continue the sheer personalisation and the venom, which was displayed again in the lead up to and the aftermath of publication,» Blunkett replies, noting that Chilcot «could not identify that people had lied nor that they had sort to mislead.»

It was difficult to get much else from the conversation, which felt a bit like a verbal barrage of salty language and vitriolic venom.

So is the vitriol and venom that characterized previous debates over Medicaid reform, which often meant Medicaid cuts.

«Their spectacular hoods and eye - catching patterns evolved to warn off potential predators because unlike other snakes, which use their venom purely for predation, cobras also use it in defence,» he said.

Researchers from LSTM, along with a team of international biologists who have recently sequenced the genome of the king cobra, say that their work reveals dynamic evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system, which seemingly occurs in response to an evolutionary arms race between venomous snakes and their prey.

Laita gave the example of the blue coral snake, which has an incredibly long venom gland, running nearly half the length of its body.

Scratching it, though, can make the pain worse, because rubbing activates the nematocysts, which release more venom.

Their venom, which paralyzes their prey almost instantly, contains neurotoxins that target specific nerve receptors, or channels.

In contrast to positive selection, the role of purifying selection (also known as negative selection, which is the selective removal of deleterious genetic changes from a population) has rarely been considered in venom evolution.

Moreover, venom research has mostly neglected ancient animal groups in favor of focusing on venomous snakes and cone snails, which are both «young» animal groups that originated only recently in evolutionary timescales, approximately 50 million years ago.

This process was hypothesized to result from an evolutionary chemical arms race, in which the invention of potent venom in the predatory animals and the evolution of venom resistance in their prey animals, exert reciprocal selection pressures.

The influence of positive selection (the process by which a protein changes rapidly over evolutionary time scales) in expanding and diversifying animal venoms is widely recognized.

In Ireland and the UK, current best practices recommend using sea water and cold packs, which is not the correct action for treating these jellyfish stings as it induces significant increases in venom delivery, while rinsing with vinegar or Sting No More ® Spray did not.

Perhaps the most important is a tiny 26 - amino - acid peptide called melittin, which constitutes more than half of the venom of honey bees and is found in a number of other bees and wasps.

King's group was the first to put funnel - web venom through a separation method called high - performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), which can separate out different components in a mixture based on properties like size or charge.

As the bees walk across the plate on the way to and from their hive, harmless currents stimulate the bees to release venom from their abdomens, leaving teeny little droplets on the glass, which are later collected.

«There is also such a thing as a «dry bite» in which no venom is injected at all.

Still, one would be well advised to steer clear of livecone snails, which are found in reef environments throughout the world.The natural venom can cause weakness and loss of coordination.

Venom can spread quickly inside the animal, and kidney failure can result within 12 to 24 hours, which is why a bitten animal needs immediate treatment.

But most snakes have solid fangs, which they use to punch holes in their victims» skin before they let the venom fly — or slide.

If the venoms don't evolve quickly enough, then the predators or prey on which they're intended to act will evolve a countermeasure and render the toxic advantage moot.

Consequently, the gene's protein — which had a benign physiological function elsewhere in the wasp body — reached a concentration with toxic properties in the venom.

Dr Fry said normally, snake venom placed pressure on the target so that animals with some variance were more resistant to the venom, which in turn put pressure back onto the venom for change.

Even before the recent genome work, researchers had characterized some of the components of black widow venom, identifying two seemingly unique families of proteins: latrotoxins, which act on neurons; and latrodectins, whose role in venom remains unclear.

His fascination with these animals centers on their specialized venoms, which allow the wasps to be masterful physiological puppeteers.

Based largely on studies of snakes, spiders and other species dangerous to our own, it is thought that most venom genes arise through the mechanism of gene duplication followed by mutation and repurposing (which scientists refer to as neofunctionalization).

The venom of some snakes, such as the western diamondback rattlesnake, also contains compounds which degrade muscle tissue to aid digestion.

In addition, she sends some of the venom she purchases — which, due to the cost of the no - harm extraction method she uses, she says is «more expensive than gold» — to Eva Sapi, Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at the University of New Haven, who studies Lyme disease.

As free - living adults, they must find and subdue an appropriate creature to play host to their young, which they do with the aid of behavior - altering venoms.

They found that the mice were protected from all but the rattlesnake venom, which is known to contain extra substances.

«This is a novel twist to the chemical arms race which most snake venoms evolve under.

The door has also flown open for the similarly complex world of spider venoms, which may offer compounds useful for controlling insects or relieving pain.

So she and her colleagues have instead looked for venom genes in the genome of a close Latrodectus relative, the common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, which was reported on 31 July in BMC Biology by a team headed by Alistair McGregor of Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.

Further research determined that certain components of the cone snail venom, called conotoxins, targeted voltage-gated calcium channels, which, like sodium channels, handle communication between pain - sensing neurons and the brain.

Snake and reptile venoms typically don't work for this type of research because most of them function as hemotoxins (which destroy red blood cells) and target components of the cardiovascular system, King says.

Unlike the peptides derived from spider or centipede venoms, saxitoxin is a small molecule, which means any medication based on it can be taken as a pill.

Harvesting venom is easier when working with large spiders, which secrete the toxin — then collected noninvasively with a pipette — in sufficient amounts for researchers to analyze and test.

«For example, the thief ant is closely related to the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), which is well known for the antimicrobial properties of its venom.

Even more interesting is how this strange venom — which shares building blocks with the venom of scorpions and cone snails — came to be.