Scientists create painkillers that could be more powerful than morphine from the venom of snails

Mail on Sunday (UK) ^ | 10:43 EST, 16 March 2014 | Sophie Jane Evans

[meadsjn]

That’s some improvement. Now instead of the druggies busting down the door to get the widescreen, they’ll be digging up the garden to get the snails.

[Kaosinla]

This article is lacking in info. and old news to a certain degree. Studies and experimentation have been going on for a decade. The real news is not so much as to the power, but how it works. It, actually, blocks the pain receptor sites, is non-addictive (no high), body doesn’t build tolerance nor have withdrawal, and there are signs it can replace anesthesia in some procedures.

[DemforBush]

Good to see this coming to market. I first read about the initial research back in the late 1990s.

Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.

[firebrand]

Thanks for the additional information. So it is a kind of a breakthrough, then.

[driftdiver]

[KarlInOhio]

One hundred different neurotoxins? Let me guess, the Japanese like to eat it raw.

[JohnnyP]

Where’s the gif of the black kid screaming “That’s Racist!”

[citizen]

Yeah, but if someone pours salt on you it won’t be pretty.

[Darksheare]

We’re from France!

[catman67]

Ah! The dreaded Diamondback Rattlesnail!

[NoCmpromiz]

the Japanese like to eat it raw.

And the snail-slicer must be specially trained..