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

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by Inside Science. The original is here. (ISNS) -- Hundreds of millions of years ago, when the ancestors of land animals crawled out of the seas and flopped on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sting of a scorpion can be deadly without the right antivenom handy—each year, some 3,000 people die from encounters with these poisonous arthropods. Now, a research team in Brazil has discovered ...

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

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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 ...