glp 1 gila monster venom 🦎 One of the world's most talked-about medicines owes a lot to… a venomous lizard. Researchers studying the saliva of the discovered a molecule similar to GLP-1. That discovery helped In the 1980s, researchers at

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F&B takeaway: Keeping an eye on this area of research is vital for F&B as it not only potentially increases the number of GLP-1 users, but ties in to the research around quietening food noise and how the drugs act in the brain

They also highlight a recurring pattern in peptide drug development: early safety signals, particularly those observed at supraphysiologic exposure levels or in non-human models, have frequently led to premature abandonment of otherwise biologically compelling targets

Early data is not encouraging

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