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Posted 15 October 2024 AM
The Albanese Government is hoping Funnel-web spiders could soon be protecting people from heart attacks instead of causing them, if new trials to develop the world's first-ever drugs for heart attack and heart transplantation go well.
A total of $17.86 million over five years will fund clinical trials of a peptide inspired by a molecule discovered in Australian funnel-web spider venom, which protects the heart during a heart attack and improves donor heart viability.
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