Opinion: The growing fang-to-pharmacy pipeline

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After a deep breath, the auto-injector pen dumps its dose into a patch of pinched stomach with barely a sting. For many, it has become a mindless nonevent. The hormone collects in a bolus in fat tissue, where it binds to albumin and, over several days, trickles into the bloodstream to do its work. Weight loss and blood sugar control were promised, yet the benefits are still surprising doctors and patients. We are in our peptides era, and this feels like just the beginning.  This all started with a venomous lizard from the Desert Southwest. Read the rest…