THE RESEARCH OPENS THE POTENTIAL TO REVEAL THE MECHANISMS OF PAIN SIGNALLING AND FUTURE NEW THERAPEUTIC TARGETS. BY UNDERSTANDING HOW THESE TOXINS WORK, THE RESEARCHERS HOPE TO PROVIDE BETTER TREATMENT TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN STUNG BY THE PLANT, TO EASE OR ELIMINATE THE PAIN.
The Gympie-Gympie tree’s needle-like trichomes inject toxins. Credit: Darren Brown, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland.
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