Tag: neurotoxins

• Thursday, October 4th 2012 - 10:55 UTC

  Painkiller as powerful as morphine has been found in deadly venom of the black mamba

  

  A painkiller as powerful as morphine, but without most of the side-effects, has been found in the deadly venom of the black mamba, say French scientists. The predator, which uses neurotoxins to paralyse and kill small animals, is one of the fastest and most dangerous snakes in Africa.