Obviously, the journalist who wrote this article got a bit lazy and decided to quote this scientist in full, rather than paraphrasing, not to mention explain, what he is saying.
A REALLY SHITTY NONSENSICAL QUOTE FROM A SCIENTIST THAT QUITE OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TRANSLATING IN LAYMEN’S TERMS:
‘ “This turns it around and says, for a particular ion channel target, can we identify, in the pharmacological diversity of the spider venom toxins, a toxin that is active against that desired target,” said Michael N. Nitabach, a physiologist at Yale.’