In Opinion The system that turned Gila monster venom into GLP-1 drugs is being dismantled through research budget cuts, Jeff Coller writes in a guest essay. “Less support for scientists means strange questions no one will get to chase. Exploring those questions is how medicine advances.”

nyti.msOpinion | We Need to Keep Funding Weird ScienceScience turned a serendipitous finding about lizard venom into one of the most important drugs of the century, but that type of research is getting harder to do.