Our ailing hearts might someday owe a debt of gratitude to a venomous spider.

So any new treatments that can safeguard our heart are still worthwhile.

That same attribute could also be used to improve the survivability of donor hearts during organ retrieval.

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So it will take time to know whether Hi1a is the real deal.

King and his team also are hoping that Hi1a could be used to treat strokes andcertain forms of epilepsy.

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