ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photo by David Guttenfelder @dguttenfelder | This banded krait was captured in D’ray Sap, Vietnam, by Vietnamese and international herpetologists searching for venomous scorpions, snakes, snails, frogs, and spiders in order to extract deadly toxins and use them to help discover pain medications and life- saving drugs. Collecting venom from around the world, biomedical scientists hope to identify new remedies because there are currently few good alternatives to opioids. Venom has already led to one notable success, when scientists derived a drug for chronic pain from another of the world’s deadliest animals: the cone snail. For more, see our story "A World of Pain" in the January 2020 issue.」1月22日 20時38分