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Research in Alabama - scorpions fight cancer at UAB
Medical researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered a new use for scorpion venom – cancer medication. Each year, some 9,000 Americans are diagnosed with malignant glioma, a form of brain cancer that kills about half its victims within a year of diagnosis. Glioma cells work a lot like cockroach muscle cells. And while that fact is pretty disgusting, it also got UAB researchers thinking about the giant Israeli scorpion, whose venom is harmless to humans but deadly to its cockroach prey.
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