Snail mucin may sound like the most unlikely beauty bestseller, yet it has quietly become one of the most talked-about ...

Insulin has proven an invaluable, life-saving hormone since the first diabetes sufferers were injected with it in the 1920s, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Scientists at the ...

For millions of people with diabetes, insulin is essential medicine. But for some ocean-dwelling predators, insulin is a weapon. With a burst of venom, a fish-hunting cone snail can drop the blood ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — What do diabetics and some sea snails have in common? They both use insulin to survive. About 8% of Utahns rely on insulin injections to manage their blood sugar. And ...

An international research team led by scientists at University of Utah Health, Stanford University, and University of Copenhagen has developed a new form of fast-acting injectable insulin based on ...

Forget slow and steady. For the cone snail, it’s fast-acting chemistry that wins the race. Researchers have now shed light on the structure of a speedy insulin that cone snails use to paralyze prey.

A new study from The American Naturalist studies some very fast snails and their success at long-distance colonization. Introduced into the rivers of the Martinique islands less than twelve years ago, ...

Did you know that the venom of a carnivorous sea snail can send an unsuspecting fish into a sugar coma? That's weird for a start, right? But get this: snail venom might also be behind the next ...

Heliciculture has become one of the newest and fastest growing industries in the United States. Heliciculture, the process of snail farming, is being developed by a number of individuals. The market ...

The desert: It’s a hot and unpleasant place, but people keep insisting on living there (just ask the Phoenicians; those are people from Phoenix). Because people aren’t willing to live only in places ...

Snails strewn on both shores of the Mediterranean were apparently scattered there by people, yielding new clues into ancient routes of human expansion across the area. The land snail Tudorella sulcata ...