Tumours feel the deadly sting of nanobees

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 04:49 in Health & Medicine

When bees sting, they pump poison into their victims. Now the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumour cells by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers attached the major component of bee venom to nano-sized spheres that they call nanobees...

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