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Snake Expert and Former Earth Institute Fellow Named a National Geographic “Emerging Explorer”

by | 7.26.2010 at 12:18pm
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Snake venom can kill, but it might also save your life. Zoltan Takacs has co-invented a technology for building “toxin libraries” that might one day lead to drugs that can treat cancer, multiple sclerosis and a variety of other diseases. His quest for venomous creatures has taken him to 133 countries, across jungles, deserts and [...]