Kita et al. Duck-Billed Platypus Venom Peptides Induce Ca2 Influx in Neuroblastoma Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society , 2009; 131 (50): 18038 DOI: 10.1021/ja908148z Cite This Page : ...

For one, duck-billed platypus venom (yes, they have venom) may have potential as a Type 2 diabetes treatment. “We have privileged access to these amazing animals,” the University of Adelaide ...

Abandon any notion that the duck-billed platypus is a soft and cuddly creature -- maybe like Perry the Platypus in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon. The males can deliver a mega-sting that causes ...

The platypus is an odd duck of the animal world: an egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed mammal that baffled European naturalists when they first discovered it. One of its more puzzling features ...

May 8 -- WEDNESDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- An international team of scientists has published the first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus, one of the few mammals that ...

Now scientists are reporting an advance toward deciphering the chemical composition of the venom, with the first identification of a dozen protein building blocks. Their study is in the Journal of the ...

Abandon any notion that the duck-billed platypus is a soft and cuddly creature ― maybe like Perry the Platypus in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon. This platypus, renowned as one of the few mammals that ...