Snake Venom As Medication?
Snake Venom As Medication?
A chemist at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) is looking for unusual structures in snake venom and plans to prove their medical effectiveness. What in the 1950s led to the development of Captopril, a drug for the treatment of hypertension, is being continued in an interesting new chapter with the analysis of venom from South American pit vipers and tropical rattlesnakes. Vienna (TU). [click link for full article]
What Determines The Speed At Which Birds Fly?
Aerodynamic scaling rules that explain how flight varies according to weight and wing loading have been used to compare general speeds of a wide range of flyers, from the smallest insects to the largest aircraft. [click link for full article]
Getting rid of garden pests (iVillage)
It’s a jungle out there: your garden can be home to a number of pests, some obvious and others less so. Discover how to find and ferret them out