Posted on 09/03/2015 8:09:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wasps get their fair share of bad press.
They have painful stingers, and they're not as useful to us (or as cute) as bees. Their time to step in the spotlight, however, may be just around the corner: Their venom has been shown to attack cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
The cancer-targeting toxin in the wasp is called MP1 (Polybia-MP1), and until now, how it selectively eliminates cancer cells was unknown.
According to new research, it exploits the atypical arrangement of fats, or lipids, in cancer-cell membranes. Their abnormal distribution creates weak points where the toxin can interact with the lipids, which ultimately pokes gaping holes in the membrane.
These are sufficiently large for essential molecules to start leaking out, including proteins, which the cell cannot function without.
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There is quite a bit of complex chemistry in bee, insect, and snake venom. Much of it can be used in medicine.
That should be “ with our family...” Can’t imagine life without them!:)
Hum, so I wonder then if a man was taking allergy shots regularly for Wasp and Bee stings if it would be a preventive vaccine for Prostate Cancer as well? The shots have venom in them. Prostate Cancer finally claimed my dad about four years ago but I have taken allergy shots on a regular basis for stings for 10 years now so in case I get stung I won't have as a severe of a reaction.
Nature does generally seem to seek equilibrium between opposing forces. That is why both planets and subatomic particles stay in stable orbits, the forces pushing them away are balanced by the forces pulling them in.
This is pretty much the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Most people know it as “entropy” but that is a simplistic understanding of what the phenomena is. Really, the 2nd law means that energy always tries to seek equilibrium and evenly distribute itself. So it flows from areas of high energy to low energy until there is absolute equilibrium, stasis.
“which will surely be less hazardous...”
And slower....
Listen, there is the right way, the wrong way, and the Boogieman way. Which may be the wrong way (but faster).
Isn’t evolution amazing?
Ping du jour
I will have to remember, when you are hassling the bikers again, that you tried to coax cancer sufferers into hitting wasp nests.
God bless you. Hold your husband close and don’t take a single second for granted.
Yikes, you can’t detect my sarcasm? When I make a Homer Simpsons reference?
You really are slow.
Wait till the bikers hear about this.
So asbestos you can, what went wrong. There are several kinds of asbestos, one of which is particularly noteworthy as troublesome.
If you want to be a big joke, by all means you are welcome to be a big joke, but then I don’t have to crucify you; you do it to yourself with amusing regularity.
My sympathies, envisio.
Maybe God listened, and this is an answer.
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