Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Scorpion sting: better than cancer

We first got a glimpse of what the scorpion might do for cancer patients more than two years. The ago Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah was in the process of selecting five patients for this unique therapy, but the clinical trials were discontinued.

Human clinical trials might reopen again if the latest discovery from this creature proves to be true. Molecules pulled from scorpion toxin do in fact kill brain tumor, but researchers had difficulty getting the stuff to its target.


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