Snails provide fast-acting therapeutic insulin

30 Jan 2017


Biologists have found that the structure of an insulin molecule produced by predatory cone snails may be an improvement over current fast-acting therapeutic insulin, as reported in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

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