September 14, 2009

Can ‘nanobees’ sting tumors to death?

By Kelley Luckstein

US researchers have recently developed tiny artificial “nanobees”, which are armed with a cancer-killing toxin found in bee venom, that literally sting tumors to death. Tested on mice, after four to five injections of thenanobees-help-with-cancer Melittin-carrying nanobees over several days, the growth of breast cancer tumors in the mice was slowed by nearly 25 percent. Melanoma (skin cancer) tumors shrunk in size by 88 percent.

 

Saudi Gazette asked Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., a Professor at the Nanotechnology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota - via an email interview - the scope and implications of this research.

 

Saudi Gazette, By Afifa Jabeen Quraishi, 09/12/09

 

 

 

Tags: Cancer, Cancer, tumors

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