Scorpion venom to shuttle drugs into the brain

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 15:20 in Biology & Nature

Biologists have described the capacity of a small protein (a peptide) derived from chlorotoxin, found in scorpion venom (Giant Yellow Israeli scorpion), to carry drugs across the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

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