Think of how many different things they had to try before finding this…
Containing more than 100 different toxins, the venom of the yellow Israeli scorpion makes it one of the most lethal creatures on earth. But now scientists are using this poison to save lives, by turning it into a treatment for a rare and deadly brain cancer. High-grade brain glioma is diagnosed in 17,000 people a year—and kills 98 percent of them. The fast-growing tumors are removed surgically, if possible, or treated with radiation therapy, which doesn’t discriminate between healthy and cancerous cells.
If I’m lucky, by the time I need it they’ll have developed all the right therapies.
Amazing. I love these types of stories.
that’s NOTHING! try to cancel VONAGE.
I think you meant that for another post.
That’ll work; I’m already planning to have my brain extracted, dumped into a bucket, hardwired to a space ship and go exploring. I can take a few scorpions along for company, and just in case I go cancerous the cure will be there within my friends.
This one involves an Israeli Scorpion. How many other insects, bugs, snakes, etc have some product we might use to cure or prevent something. So the next time someone is worried about a possible animal becoming extinct, remember.
#5, (insert random ad hominem and non sequitur here)
Your comment was my first reaction as well.