Chemicals That Changed The World: Botulinum toxin
Imagine a super-toxin thousands of times more potent than dioxin and millions of times more deadly than rattlesnake venom. The botulinum neurotoxin, produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, is one of the most poisonous substances known to science. A mere 0.1 grams of this toxin could kill more people than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima […]