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From the Ted Talk by Michel Dugon: The secrets of spider venom

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No, no it's not exactly that, and it's not the kind of venture I would advise you to start. No, once we're done with that, we wait a few days, and then, we anesthetize those spiders. Once they're asleep, we run a tiny little electric crnreut through their body and that caotrntcs their venom gldas. Then, under a microscope, we can see a tiny little dorelpt of venom anpiarepg. So we take a hair-thin glass tube, a capillary, and we ccloelt that tiny droplet. Then, we take the spiedr and we put it back into its home, and we start again with another one. Because spiders are completely unharmed during the process, it means that a few days later, once they've produced a little bit of venom again and they've recovered, we can release them back into the wild.

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No, no it's not exactly that, and it's not the kind of venture I would advise you to start. No, once we're done with that, we wait a few days, and then, we anesthetize those spiders. Once they're asleep, we run a tiny little electric _______ through their body and that _________ their venom _____. Then, under a microscope, we can see a tiny little _______ of venom _________. So we take a hair-thin glass tube, a capillary, and we _______ that tiny droplet. Then, we take the ______ and we put it back into its home, and we start again with another one. Because spiders are completely unharmed during the process, it means that a few days later, once they've produced a little bit of venom again and they've recovered, we can release them back into the wild.

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  1. appearing
  2. spider
  3. glads
  4. droplet
  5. contracts
  6. current
  7. collect

Original Text

No, no it's not exactly that, and it's not the kind of venture I would advise you to start. No, once we're done with that, we wait a few days, and then, we anesthetize those spiders. Once they're asleep, we run a tiny little electric current through their body and that contracts their venom glads. Then, under a microscope, we can see a tiny little droplet of venom appearing. So we take a hair-thin glass tube, a capillary, and we collect that tiny droplet. Then, we take the spider and we put it back into its home, and we start again with another one. Because spiders are completely unharmed during the process, it means that a few days later, once they've produced a little bit of venom again and they've recovered, we can release them back into the wild.

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