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Medicine often fails to offer relief to patients with chronic pain.
Medicines such as aspirin are far too weak and narcotics such as morphine often work for a while, but patients quickly become physically dependent and require ever stronger doses. More than a decade ago Baldomero Olivera and his colleagues at the University of Philippines in Manila observed that several varieties of the cone snail had evolved a sting potent enough to completely paralyze a fish within seconds. Since then researchers have isolated one class of peptides from the cone snail venom that may ease human suffering by interrupting pain signals as they travel through the spinal cord to the brain. As a consequence, pain is blocked without numbness. This potential analgesic is called SNX-111 .