Scorpion venom helps kill brain tumor

Baack · Apr 22, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY -- Scorpion venom as a cancer treatment! We brought that story a couple of years ago. Now, the poison of the scorpion is back; this time, with a partner that could make it even more effective in killing brain tumors.
We first got a glimpse of what the scorpion might do for cancer patients more than two years. The 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.
Dr. Randy Jensen, with the Huntsman Cancer Institute, said, "I would like to revisit that again, and I think some of the problems that have been experienced in a lot of drugs that we've tested is that they are not just delivered properly." But scientists at the University of Washington have now found if you combine the scorpion molecule with nanoparticles, you cut the spread of cancer cells not by a mere 45 percent but by 98 percent
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TruckrsWife · Apr 22, 2009

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Who'd of thunk that my nemesis could be so beneficial to mankind. God does work in mysterious ways. I still hate scorpions.....eeww, they give me the creeps. I learned to get over my phobia of spiders and then move to an area that has scorpions, and am now back to square one. I was introduced to them the hard way....was stung three times on my thigh by one scorpion.

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