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New Painkiller Was Born In Utah: Undergrad Discovered Natural Form In Venomous Snails

The natural form of Prialt – a new drug for severe pain approved this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – was discovered at the University of Utah in 1979 by an incoming freshman studying toxins produced by cone snails.

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...researchers have found that a gene used by the snail to make venom is more than a half billion years old.

Hvernig er það, ætli sniglarnir eigi þá ekki réttinn á einkaleyfinu?