Most likely the first work done for medical reasons will involve developing protocols to synthesize the useful components of the venom. Althogh some snakes will be euthanized at the university level for various reasons, most of the venom used to determine the structure of the proteins will just be "milked" from lab raised snakes.

Well hopefully anyway

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• Interesting Scientific Study - dawnrenee2000, Tue Oct 3 08:26:45 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - johninbs, Tue Oct 3 11:49:10 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - dawnrenee2000, Tue Oct 3 11:57:43 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - wink0083, Tue Oct 3 14:43:50 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - dawnrenee2000, Tue Oct 3 16:29:42 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - phwyvern, Tue Oct 3 18:41:57 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - Rivets55, Tue Oct 3 19:06:50 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - phwyvern, Tue Oct 3 18:46:32 2006
• Been there, done that... - garweft, Wed Oct 4 17:50:05 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - juicyb, Tue Oct 3 21:34:26 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - Foreman, Wed Oct 4 07:46:56 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - Foreman, Wed Oct 4 07:53:53 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - ratsnakehaven, Wed Oct 4 12:17:34 2006
• Venom Glands - Rivets55, Wed Oct 4 13:34:00 2006
• I wouldn't worry about butchered snakes - garweft, Wed Oct 4 17:44:42 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - phiber_optikx, Thu Oct 5 12:52:25 2006
• Who knew....Were HOT keepers...LOL - garweft, Wed Oct 4 17:34:50 2006
• RE: Who knew....Were HOT keepers...LOL - Foreman, Thu Oct 5 06:49:52 2006
• Well... maybe. - odyssey, Thu Oct 5 10:07:19 2006