From toxins to drugs

Wikipedia of a few days ago focused in upon Amanita phalloides a rather poisonous fungus. Which brought me back to the post on ticks and bugs - and the discussion of toxins.

Prof Alan Harvey is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Toxicon. A few weeks ago Alan was in the Elsevier offices in New York. In this video he talks briefly about toxins that have been transformed into drugs!