{"id":123685,"date":"2021-06-11T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/humans-have-a-tool-kit-to-produce-venom-finds-study"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T18:22:21","slug":"humans-have-a-tool-kit-to-produce-venom-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/humans-have-a-tool-kit-to-produce-venom-finds-study","title":{"rendered":"Humans have a tool kit to produce venom, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-have-a-tool-kit-to-produce-venom-finds-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study has revealed that humans \u2014 along with all other mammals and reptiles \u2014 have the capability of producing venom. The study, published on Monday (March 29) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said humans apparently have a \u201ctool kit\u201d to produce venom.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in Live Science, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/humans-have-the-biological-toolkit-to-be-venomous-but-evolution-had-other-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humans already produce a key protein used in many venom systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It said<strong> kallikreins, a kind of protein that digest other proteins, are secreted in saliva and are a key part of many venoms<\/strong>. They are a natural starting point for theoretically venomous humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has revealed that humans \u2014 along with all other mammals and reptiles \u2014 have the capability of producing venom. The study, published on Monday (March 29) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said humans apparently have a \u201ctool kit\u201d to produce venom. According to a report in Live [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}