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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Spider venom could hold the key to understanding how the body operates. Researchers have discovered a toxin from the American Funnel Web spider acts on T-type and N-type calcium channels. They say the toxin offers a new target for studying T-type channels, which play a role in congestive heart failure, hypertension, epilepsy and pain.The investigators, from the University of California at Riverside, purified the toxin and created a recombinant version. "If we can...