EP 56 · 47:41

Learning from nature

From The Yak Mutation That Could Help Repair the Brain

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10/26
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47:41>> Right. Right. The professor is not looking. >> Yeah. Look look. >> In fact the professor is like like giving us all these disorders. >> Right. Right. The professor is the problem. >> Yeah. The professor is straight up the problem. The test is rigged. >> Right. So I'd rather try to figure out how to pass um and live a good life. So there are a bunch of iconic successes in evolutionary pharmarmacology. The first one I want to talk about is um Captoril. Captopril, the first ACCE inhibitor and it was discovered in snake venom. >> Mhm.

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    The Yak Mutation That Could Help Repair the Brain

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    The Yak Mutation That Could Help Repair the Brain

Evolutionary BiologyNeurobiologyPharmacologyRegenerative Medicine