World-first Australian research is using funnel-web spider venom to protect the ... Darling Downs, Southern tree-dwelling or Sydney funnel-webs were consistently aggressive against potential ...

Funnel-webs have the Hi1a peptide as protection from predators, but in humans, the peptide stops heart and brain cells from ...

with each one containing up to 150 baby spiders. 'Funnel-web breeding season is here and all the rain this year has brought ...

One of the world’s deadliest spiders could hold the key to saving the lives of people who’ve had heart attacks, according to research by Australian scientists.

crawliest mission yet as they head into the Lamington National Park rainforest in South-East Queensland to track down one of the world's deadliest spiders, a northern tree-dwelling funnel web ...

The complex mating rituals of the Sydney funnel-web spider have now been described in detail for the first time, with sexual routines including leg and body vibrations and female lifting filling a ...

Researchers sourced a molecule from Funnel Web spider venom which is showing promise to treat heart attacks. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

Their web is made of silk with a woolly texture due to extremely fine and sticky fibres, which gives them the name lace-weavers. The window spider is found under tree bark, fallen logs, under stones, ...

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Australian researchers have created a drug using a molecule from the venom of funnel-web spiders ... Darling Downs, Southern tree-dwelling or Sydney funnel-webs were consistently aggressive ...