Sentences with phrase «use venom»

But now scientists at the University of Melbourne have found that dragons actually use venom from a gland in their mouth to down their prey.

Leeches use venom as a numbing agent, a way to mask their presence so as to feast on their victims» blood unnoticed.

Gila and beaded lizards mainly use venom to defend themselves, while snakes use their venom to attack prey.

Most venomous species today use their venom for hunting, so I would rather go for this option.

In the arms race of life, a number of animals use venom as a weapon to paralyze prey and jump - start digestion.

«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.

Tip of the day: Don't play with creatures evolved to live in a completely different environment and use their venom to survive in nature.

If researchers can use venoms to develop a drug that blocks this channel, we could provide relief for chronic pain sufferers and possibly shake our dependence on opioid - based painkillers, such as oxycodone or hydrocodone.

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Not exact matches

Morphine and barbiturates may be used to ease the increasing pain and convulsions.Though the venom's effect on breathing may make painkillers more dangerous.The only antivenom uses potentially harmful horse proteins, making it a last resort.The black widow's bite is rarely deadly for healthy adults.

Experts say the Venom vulnerability illustrates the cyber-risks associated with using cloud computing.

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.

Instead, he used the announcement of the phone call to spit venom in all directions with baseless propaganda about his opponents.

I also know that most of you atheists use multiple handles and your special venom Tom Tom comes through on most of your phony handles that you hide like the coward you are Tom.

The same venom from a snake that can kill you, is also used to protect you.

you shoud look at yourself more closely... the venom you spew is clearly hatred, you violate the 9th commantment with nearly every post, use continuous streams of ad hominem and non-sequitur.

There are reports out of Colombia and India that chiles are used to draw out the venom of poisonous snake bites; however, we'd place bets on the cobras» and bushmasters» venom being triumphant in these circumstances.

If Tosaint can learn to strike the ball with a little more venom, while still using his head to bulge the twine, then he should improve upon his goal scoring total and, hopefully, exceed expectations in 2018.

«The venom and the acts that we have witnessed the last few days is not acceptable,» he said on Tuesday, adding later that the owner of Gourmet Butcher «has stated repeatedly that individuals have entered his store and used hate terminology.»

Unlike their stinging cousins, chalcidid wasps are parasitic and use their stingers to plant eggs in host species rather than delivering a painful dose of venom.

Ken Shea and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, used melittin, the toxin in bee venom, as the antigen (the substance triggering an immune reaction).

The researchers identified 5 toxins within the snake venom and used a technique called SPOT - synthesis to identify the sections of the toxin (epitopes) that are recognized by coral snake antivenom antibodies.

In one scorpion species, researchers have found that the arachnids use a relatively weak, but easily produced, prevenom for small jobs such as paralyzing insects and save their deadliest venom for serious work like fending off a larger animal.

The venom, specialized for use against mammalian predators, can kill a barefoot human unlucky enough to step on it.

Claudio Vita and his colleagues at the protein engineering department of CEA, the French nuclear research agency in Gif - sur - Yvette, are using the toxins found in scorpion venom as a chemical scaffold to build novel proteins for use as drugs (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 92, p 6404).

First, venom is often used in medicines and pharmacological compounds.

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.

At the time of writing, just six had been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for medical use (one other — Baltrodibin, adapted from the venom of the Lancehead snake — is not FDA approved, but is available outside the US for treatment of bleeding during operations).

The idea that the same venom toxins that cause harm may also be used to heal is not new.

«We also want to see, using high - resolution images, what exactly happens when bee venom hits Borrelia,» Sapi told me.

Bee venom has been used as a treatment in East Asia since at least the second century BCE.

In Chinese traditional medicine, scorpion venom is recognized as a powerful medicine, used to treat everything from eczema to epilepsy.

Mithradates VI of Pontus, a formidable enemy of Rome (and also an infamous toxinologist), was said to have been saved from a potentially fatal wound on the battlefield by using steppe viper venom to stop the bleeding.

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

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.

Bumping into one of these creatures in their native forests in South America would not be good for anyone's heart, so it is ironic that pit viper venom has given us a drug used to treat high blood pressure.

They just need to be able to co-opt and drop genes for use in making venoms quickly.

«These findings raise important questions relating to the processes that other venomous animals may have used to generate their venom toxins,» wroteNicholas Casewell, senior lecturer and Wellcome Trust research fellow with the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in a summary dispatch published alongside the Current Biology pvenom toxins,» wroteNicholas Casewell, senior lecturer and Wellcome Trust research fellow with the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in a summary dispatch published alongside the Current Biology pVenom Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in a summary dispatch published alongside the Current Biology paper.

For instance, a snake has venom, but it also can make use of its speed and jaws to catch prey.

For millennia, the Chinese have made use of the medicinal properties of scorpion venom for chronic pain and a host of other ailments.

Changes in muscle repair with aging were determined by injecting the old mice and young mice (neither group exercised) with snake venom commonly used to induce muscle injury in rodent studies.

A method called proteomics was used in the Aarhus study to make the first overall description of venom proteins in gila lizards.

Gila lizards produce exendin - 4, a small venom protein used in the treatment of diabetes and obesity, which is a competitor to Victoza ® — produced by Novo Nordisk.

Excessive amounts can be harmful and even lethal in some circumstances, but if the right dose is used, the venom proteins can be used to treat certain diseases.

Many species use their pincers to deliver venom to small prey, including insects.

As venom glands don't fossilise, Benoit and his colleagues from at Wits University, in association with the Natural History Museum of London used cutting edge CT scanning and 3D imagery techniques to analyse the only two fossilised skulls of the Euchambersia ever found, and discovered stunning anatomical adaptions that are compatible with venom production.

«We therefore used a more manually based approach to identify the proteins in the gila lizard venom.

The researchers milked wasps for their venom and then analyzed the components using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.

Individual proteins such as exendin - 4 used to be purified from gila lizard venom, and this resulted in a number of interesting results.

Researchers used high - speed cameras to measure the strike speeds of two viper species — cottonmouth vipers and diamondback rattlesnakes — along with Texas rat snakes (pictured), a nonviper species that lacks venom.