Stories like Mendosa’s have become commonplace in the age of Ozempic. According to a 2024 Kaiser Family Foundation survey, ...

Billionaire Elon Musk suddenly has the power to cut large swaths of U.S. government funding, and one of his many targets is scientific research. Last year, one person tweeted that the U.S. government ...

A Gila monster that bit its owner in Lakewood on Feb. 12, leading to the man's death, was returned to Colorado this week and sent to a lab in Greeley on Thursday for testing on the reptile's venom.

The toxic bite of a Gila monster can kill a human, but a specific ingredient in the cocktail of the lizard's venom is the reason we have glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy.

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A Lakewood man who died last month after he was bitten by one of his pet Gila monsters died from "complications" from the lizard's venom, according to an autopsy report obtained by ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as ...

A 34-year-old Colorado man believed to be the first person killed by a Gila monster in nearly a century died from complications associated with the reptile’s venom, a coroner determined. Heart and ...

Have you heard the story about the scientific gold in Gila monster venom? With what's happening in Washington these days, it's a tale worth telling. The best starting point for this decades-long drama ...

A Colorado man has died after being bitten by his pet Gila monster in what would be a rare death by one of the desert lizards if the creature’s venom turns out to have been the cause. Christopher Ward ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A 34-year-old Lakewood man died over the weekend after he was bitten by one of his two pet Gila monsters, according to the Lakewood Police Department. Around 11:45 p.m. on Feb. 12, ...