It’s not even the first lizard based medicine. There was also Byetta, which was based on gila monster saliva. It’s a diabetes drug that was one of the first to also be useful for weight loss.
Lymey Lizards
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ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Yup, you probably already know this but Gila monster saliva is the main part of the research that led to the creation of ozempic!
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 12 hours ago
TOS? VOY! Just bleed Janeway and Paris dry!
Bane0fExistence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
My first thought was VOY when they became lizards too!
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You never thought that Star Trek plots were allegories simply plucked from the headlines of the day?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Okay. So what inspired And So the Children Shall Lead? (TOS, third season.)
It’s about children getting possessed and murdering everybody.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Roddenberry loved his god-like children plots. Charlie X. Trelane. Even Q. Every time he had writers block, he’d spew out another one of those.
dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I think I missed that ubuntu release…
Natanael@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
It’s a Stargate Universe plot, even
Fondots@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’m from PA, lyme is pretty common here.
One of my friends moved to Seattle, and one when he came back to visit family he managed to catch it.
Apparently he got a call from the state health department in Washington after he got his test results back basically asking “where the hell did you get Lyme disease”
He told them he’d been in PA, and they were basically like “ok yeah that checks out”