Business Opportunities Weblog

Using Rattlesnakes Fight Cancer

By on February 17, 2013 in Inventions

Photo by Charles & Clint

Popular Science:

An Irish company is using four American diamondback rattlesnakes in a new clinical trial that will test snake venom as a treatment for cancer. The snakes, which hail from the Albuquerque BioPark, will be allowed to bite something and have their venom extracted humanely. The venom contains proteins that will be extracted and refined to target and kill cancer cells.

Snake venom has long shown promise as a treatment for cancer, in a wide range of animal trials dating back several years. Celtic Biotech isolated a protein in a type of rattlesnake venom that causes malignant cancer cells to commit cell suicide.

Photo by Charles & Clint.

cancer ireland medicine snakes

Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,208 posts to the site.

Another Idea: How to Start a Snake Business

  • http://www.usehcg.com/ Use HCG

    The most effective weight loss supplement for 2012 is a natural product made when a women is pregnant called human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG for short.

Today's Posts