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Poison

Dec 06, 202239 minSeason 4Ep. 34
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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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Sources:


[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

https://www.mississippientomologicalmuseum.org.msstate.edu/Researchtaxapages/Formicidaepages/genericpages/Lasius.neglectus.htm

Bacteriophage that stole spider venom protein

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/black-widow-virus-results-from-evolution-not-genetic-engineering/

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://agresearchfoundation.oregonstate.edu/sites/agresearchfoundation.oregonstate.edu/files/bionaz_2014-16_final.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938409002510?via%3Dihub

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