(CN) — Despite their conventional name and colorful patterned shells, some cone snails are killers. Their venom not only paralyzes and kills their marine prey, but, depending on the species, they can ...

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Morphine is a synthetic narcotic designed to treat severe pain. As an opioid, tt is created from opium, or the seeds from certain poppy plants. While morphine has been a powerful pain management drug, ...

It’s known as the geographer cone, the geography cone, or the geographic cone, and it’s the world’s most venomous of the 500 species of cone snails. It’s not only deadly to the fish it consumes; it ...

For millions of people with diabetes, insulin is essential medicine. But for some ocean-dwelling predators, insulin is a weapon. With a burst of venom, a fish-hunting cone snail can drop the blood ...

Bea Ramiro began to study the sea snail species Conus rolani more or less by chance. Together with two fishermen she was collecting material in the waters off the Philippine island of Cebu in 2018. At ...

Insulin produced by a predatory cone snail (Conus geographus), pictured here hunting a fish, appears to act three times faster than current therapeutic insulin products, according to new research.