Article: PETS: Warning - spiders can save your life.(Features)

A REPORT in the Journal of General Physiology has revealed that the poison of a tarantula spider may help save the lives of heart attack and brain tumour sufferers.

There are more than 30,000 species of spiders and the report's author, Professor Frederick Sachs, is studying the popular and readily- available Chile Rose.

All spiders bite, though the amount of poison in the bite varies from virtually none in the UK species, to seriously toxic in some Australian Black Widow ...

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