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Beauty in mind
Nikolaus Franke, who made an excellent speech on user innovation, mentioned a rather interesting thing about Botox. The Botulinum toxin was originally developed for treatment of spasms but around two thirds of the revenues come from use in wrinkle removal. Beauty in mind.
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Researcher from School of Economics and Management at Lund University within the area of innovation management. His special interest lies with high-tech and dynamic industries, especially platform competition. He also runs his own company.
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September 17th, 2009 - 22:19
Unfortunately Nikolaus Franke, may have caused a misunderstanding about Botulinum toxin. Botulinum toxin is one of the most dangerous toxins produced in the nature. The cause is the bacteria Chlostridium Botulinum. Damaged cans of food, sausages, and improperly handled food products, may house this bacteria, and the toxin. If you eat it, you have very small changes of surviving.
The invention in the 50s was the purification of this bacterial toxin and the discovery of the possibility to use it for spasm relaxing, firstly in ophtalmology.