Mar 11, 2021 10:03 AM EST
Walking along a sandy track, a team of researchers is doing something kids have been told not to do, which is searching for funnel-web spiders.
Biochemist Glen King who is Leading the squad, which is named bugs-and-drugs squad , from the University of Queensland has built a career unraveling the chemical formation of venomous creatures in Australia.
King and his squad have arrived at K gari, the area you may know as Fraser Island in search of an exceptional kind of treasure in spider-web venom termed as a miracle molecule.
It is known as Hi1a and it consists of neurotoxins that perform an action on the nervous system of the receiver. But the researchers are not keen on how it would cause harm to humans, they are concerned about how it could help them.
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