The story of one huge advance in health care shows why public investment in science is critical and why proposed cuts are ...

he shipped a live gila monster to Canada, then studied its venom and the genes behind the protein that works like GLP-1. Other researchers continued working on GLP-1 in humans in the 1990s and 2000s.

Gila monster isn't the only creature to have lent its chemical arsenal to modern medicine The bite of a Gila monster is venomous enough to harm a human, but hidden within its toxic cocktail lies a ...

Maybe it has something to do with their adaptation to reduced water and reduced food availability ... but others like the Gila monster buck that for Z and W sex chromosomes.

The Gila monster, which is native to the deserts of North America, can survive on just a few meals a year, thanks to a digestion-slowing hormone in its venom. The discovery of this hormone paved ...