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  "id": 17388833,
  "title": "How a Brazilian snake's venom led to a widely used blood pressure drug",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/how-a-brazilian-snakes-venom-led-to-a-widely-used-blood-pressure-drug",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-31T10:40:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/wildlife/in-the-1960s-scientists-studying-the-venom-of-a-brazilian-pit-viper-found-a-compound-that-lowered-blood-pressure-and-it-led-to-captopril-one-of-the-first-widely-used-blood-pressure-pills-approved-in-the-us-in-1981/articleshow/135362272.cms"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Brazilian pit viper, Bothrops jararaca, has been a focal point in research leading to significant medical breakthroughs. In the 1960s, Sergio Ferreira uncovered a peptide from this snake that plays a crucial role in blood pressure regulation. This groundbreaking discovery eventually paved the way for captopril, the pioneering ACE inhibitor approved in 1981, which has transformed the treatment…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}