Friday, July 14, 2006

Rock You Like a Hurricane

Here's a headline you don't see every day:
Making Radioactive Scorpion Venom Therapy Safe
Say what?
Health physicists are establishing safe procedures for a promising experimental brain-cancer therapy which uses radioactive scorpion venom. The venom of the yellow Israeli scorpion preferentially attaches to the cells of a type of essentially incurable brain cancers known as gliomas. This preference can be exploited to killing brain cancer cells non-invasively.
Not so unusual, I guess, when you consider the benefits that radioactive spider venom can apparently have...

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