Honeybee Venom Toxin Used To Develop New Tool For Studying Hypertension
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 20:28
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have modified a honeybee venom toxin so that it can be used as a tool to study the inner workings of ion channels that control heart rate and the recycling of salt in kidneys.
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