Venom of the scorpion Brotheas amazonicus appears to attack breast cancer cells in a way similar to a widely used ...

Scorpion venom, once feared only as a deadly toxin, is rapidly emerging as one of the most intriguing experimental tools against breast cancer. Early laboratory work suggests that carefully isolated ...

Scientists are turning venom, radioisotopes, engineered proteins, and AI into powerful new tools against cancer. From ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco – Extracting venom from scorpions can be a dangerous, but rewarding, task. The poisonous secretion, while fatal to humans, contains hundreds of components that have potential uses ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, when the ancestors of land animals crawled out of the seas and flopped on a primordial beach they learned quickly that to survive they were going to have to develop ...

Scientists are uncovering surprising new cancer treatments inspired by venom, engineered proteins, and advanced AI.

Tiny desert-dwelling rodents have found a way to take the sting out of scorpion venom. A protein in the nerves of southern grasshopper mice hijacks the venom’s toxins, silencing pain signals that ...

Scorpion venom packs more than a painful sting. It’s also chock full of novel bioactive compounds—most of them polypeptides—that intrigue scientists. For the first time, researchers have identified an ...

PHOENIX — Meet the Arizona Bark Scorpion -- the most common scorpion in the Phoenix area out of the 60+ species of scorpions found in Arizona. It also happens to be the most venomous and only lethal ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists have shown scorpions can fine-tune their venom to suit different predators and prey. Dr Jamie Seymour from JCU's Australian Institute of Tropical Health and ...

A South African scorpion economizes as it stings, injecting a simple mix first, followed by a venom that’s more complicated to produce. The first droplet from the stinger of the Parabuthus ...

Recently, an online fan pointed out something specific about the Scorpion poison segment in Marvel's Spider-Man main story. The extra information about this moment from Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man ...