Michel Dugon at TEDxGalway (transcript)
The secrets of spider venom
Summary
Antibiotics are substances that are released from microorganisms. It’s used to treat infectious diseases as medication. It means to be able to kill bacteria and to work against infectious diseases in your body. However, creatures that have antibiotics are decreasing. It won't become able to be produced those if it continues.
And then there are interesting stories there, in fact, antibiotics that creatures have are their venom that living them produce. In the venom, every chemical compound is separated, purified, diluted, and tested into cancer cells, bacteria, and so on. By a viper from South America, a lizard from North America, and a marine snail, toxins are produced and medications that we now use have been developed.
Probably, the venom from spiders that there is next to you must be produced. The study is continuing for the next generation.
Words in this story
dilute /verb/ make a liquid thinner or weaker, water down, reduce the strength of, weak
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