Scorpion Poison is known for its deadly effect but now researchers are trying to cure cancer for this deadly thing, and they are hopeful for creating a medicine from it.
A team from National Autonomous University od Mexico (UNAM) conducted a research on venom of Mexican Scorpio. They found that the venom effectively kills cancer cells after penetrating them.
This is the first study which studied scorpion venom to create a medicine for deadly diseases. The tested it on cancer and found it effective but the problem with the venom is that it is too poisonous.
The team is further studying to find a way so that it only affects cancer cells and tumors without any damage to healthy cells of body.
The group is now separating different components of the poison to identify those which kill cancer cell without any damage to healthy cells.