The study centers around a deep-learning tool named APEX, designed to predict antimicrobial activity from protein sequences.

A woman named Beckylee posted a video on TikTok and showed viewers how she had a close call with a venomous shell creature on ...

A 2022 study found that cone snail venom also includes another toxin which resembles insulin. This lowers blood sugar levels so quickly that the cone snail’s prey becomes unresponsive.

A new study has found that a component of sea snail venom could hold promise for designing drugs to treat diabetes and hormone disorders.

Research led by University of Utah scientists has identified a component of cone snail venom that mimics a human hormone that regulates the levels of blood sugar.

In a new study, researchers discovered one clade of cone snail uses a venom that contains a peptide resembling somatostatin, which could treat cancer and other human ailments.

The venom of geography cone snails may hold the key to developing better drugs for people with diabetes or hormone disorders.

University of Utah researchers have found that the structure of an insulin molecule produced by predatory cone snails may be an improvement over current fast-acting therapeutic insulin. The finding ...

You may know that marine cone snails are some of the most comically toxic creatures on the planet. But have you ever seen one of these mollusks feed? Even though there’s no way one of these tiny ...

Cone snails aren’t glamorous. They don’t have svelte waistlines or jaw-dropping good looks. Yet, some of these worm-hunting gastropods are the femme fatales or lady killers of the undersea world, ...

Research led by University of Utah scientists has identified a component of cone snail venom that mimics a human hormone that regulates the levels of blood sugar.