Acidic Scorpion Venom Causes a More Painful Sting (1 of 2) (IMAGE)
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Mesobuthus martensii, also known as the Chinese golden scorpion. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 2, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Yang at Kunming Institute of Zoology in Kunming, China, and colleagues was titled, 'A bimodal activation mechanism underlies scorpion toxin-induced pain.'
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[Credit: Dr. Shilong Yang]
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