“Some of the most powerful medicines we will ever find are already here, carried in the fangs, stingers, and saliva of creatures we’ve been taught to fear,” writes Steve Midway. FDA smoking research Newsletters Log In My Account Subscribe Now My Account Settings Complete your personal information for a more tailored experience Billing Log Out A decade of reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Newsletters Log In My Account Subscribe Now Biotech Pharma Public Health Health Tech Policy Science First Opinion STAT+ STAT Events Search Log In Try STAT+ My Account Home First Opinion The growing fang-to-pharmacy pipeline…
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.
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