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Chinese scientists have found a new chemical compound in the venom of a centipede native to China that can act as a painkiller with no negative side effects like those associated with morphine.
The discovery could potentially help a country's military reduce its reliance on morphine for battleground injuries, or even create an army of soldiers with the ability to fight on after sustaining wounds in combat, pundits say.
"It is completely different from morphine," said Professor Lai Ren, the lead scientist of the study.
"Morphine is only intended for emergency use. It has many side effects and can lead to addiction over the longer-term," added Lai, who works with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Kunming Institute of Zoology in southern Yunnan province.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:31AM
Followers of obsolete unthinkable trades, doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, black marketeers of World War II, excisors of telepatic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chess players, servers of fragmentary warrents taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit, officials of unconstituted police states, brokers of exquisite dreams and nostalgias tested on the sensitized cells of junk sickness and bartered for raw materials of the will, drinkers of the Heavy Fluid sealed in translucent anber of dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:38AM
On stools covered in white satin sit naked Mugwumps
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @05:15AM
I need babblefish to grok this one
(Score: 3, Touché) by captain normal on Saturday November 14 2015, @06:19AM
Looks like you've been hitting that centipede venom pretty hard.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:04AM
Black Meat? Opium. Delerium. British pushers of drugs from Afghanistan to China. Laudanum. Morphine is just more refined, and Heroin only has the nasty bits. But it always was the Poppy. Poppy Bush. Why did the Taliban need to be overthrown? They banned the cultivation of poppies! That just goes too far!
But Centipedes, stung by scorpions, that were stung by Black Widows: old Chinese recipe for certain death!!!!