It’s said that the dose makes the poison, but that doesn’t change the fact that some poison is just more poison-y than others. This week, we get a lethal dose of venomous knowledge!
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[Definition]
Toxin vs. poison vs. venom
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12062
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/whats-in-a-name-venoms-vs-poisons-toxinology-101
[Dead or Not Dead]
[Trivia Question]
Belgian musicians getting sick from botulism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133258/#b01
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30099331
[Fact Off]
Ants disinfect using their butt poison
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31147-3
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/736123
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212013784
https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/Antintro.htm
https://elifesciences.org/articles/60287
Bacteriophage that stole spider venom protein
https://www.livescience.com/56443-black-widow-spider-dna-found-inside-virus.html
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/10/11/virus-carrying-dna-of-black-widow-spider-toxin-discovered/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108671-virus-steals-black-widow-poison-gene-to-help-it-attack/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Effects of ingesting venom
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266834/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273230014003419?via%3Dihub
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7985199/
https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(15)01377-3/fulltext
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349795/
[Butt One More Thing]
Goats can deactivate poisonous plant compounds
https://calag.ucanr.edu/Archive/?article=ca.v046n03p4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938409002510?via%3Dihub
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