Jeremy Barker, leader of the database project
A new database that catalogues spider venom is being created in Australia. Spiders are the group of animals with the greatest variety of poisons. Now this group is being catalogued by potential use as, for example, biodegradable pesticides.
Ironic that the first group of substances to be catalogued this way are poisons.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it
/it-business/spider-venom-database-to-aid
-researchers/story-e6frganx-1225805516265
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