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Half the dry weight of the venom, and it punches holes in any lipid bilayer it meets. That is why it kills cells in a dish, and why targeting it in a body is hard.

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Half the dry weight of the venom, and it punches holes in any lipid bilayer it meets. That is why it kills cells in a dish, and why targeting it in a body is hard.

This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.

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