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Jul 14, 2021

5 Times Animals Inspired Better Drugs

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Scientists have been turning to the animal world for inspiration for a long time, including for medicines. And many different types of animals have been responsible for this inspiration, including sharks, spiders, and… roadkill.

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Sources:
Intro.
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/otto-lilienthal.
https://www.hookandloop.com/invention-velcro-brand/
https://biomimicry.org/biomimicry-examples/#construction.

Frogs.
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/20…germs.html.
https://www.nature.com/scitable/definition/peptide-317/
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/organ-systems/the…e-immunity.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092485790…JJOrPGU9AA
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Rinaldi-7/public…df#page=15
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1747-0…v1BMAAAAA: e948bW6RQBrCzh1txPciwa4XacFnbKwHeGPY8ARsnfTJDYIQJoGEIS-2JLBRKh5rY8gRN3vS4aM5vdU
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00726-012-1395-7.pdf.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7087712/

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