{"id":6556,"date":"2025-02-16T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/on-a-mission-to-heal-gila-monsters\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:34:29","slug":"on-a-mission-to-heal-gila-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/on-a-mission-to-heal-gila-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Mission to Heal Gila Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By any measure, the diabetes drug Ozempic has been a blockbuster, racking up billions of dollars in annual sales. In the United States alone, pharmacies fill millions of prescriptions for Ozempic and related drugs, which have become popular for their weight-loss effects, every month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in the beginning, before the celebrity endorsements and the think pieces and the global supply crunch, there was just a strange, venomous lizard with a flair for intermittent fasting. The Gila monster, which is native to the deserts of North America, can survive on just a few meals a year, thanks to a digestion-slowing hormone in its venom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The discovery of this hormone paved the way for Ozempic, making the Gila monster an enormously profitable gift to modern medicine. And last summer one particular Gila monster, a former pet named Pebbles, needed medicine in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pebbles, a resident at the Creature Conservancy, a wildlife education organization in Ann Arbor, Mich., had been infected with a parasite called Cryptosporidium. Hard to kill, the parasite<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>colonizes the digestive tract and is typically a death sentence for reptiles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A veterinarian had recommended that Pebbles be humanely euthanized. But the Creature Conservancy wasn\u2019t ready to accept that fate for Pebbles, who had at least another decade of life potentially ahead of her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf we can fix her,\u201d said Steve Marsh, the founder of the Creature Conservancy, one afternoon last July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He corrected himself: \u201cIf he can fix her,\u201d he said. He nodded toward a sharply dressed man who was cradling Pebbles in his gloved hands: Tim Cernak, a pharmaceutical chemist at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A few minutes later, a veterinarian inserted a tube into the lizard\u2019s throat, collecting liquid from her stomach. 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