{"id":1381,"date":"2014-10-08T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T19:09:40","slug":"venoms-may-be-used-to-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/venoms-may-be-used-to-fight-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Venoms May Be Used to Fight Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1382\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1382\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MP9002626151-200x134.jpg\" alt=\"Could Venom Be The Answer\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MP9002626151-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MP9002626151.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Could Venom Be The Answer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scientists are optimistic about attacking cancer cells with the poisonous venoms most of us desperately try to avoid. Dr. Dipanjan Pan led a team at the University of Illinois that has successfully and safely targeted breast cancer and melanoma cells in a lab.<\/p>\n<p>While being able to kill cancer cells and prevent them from multiplying is good news by itself, another important breakthrough is Dr Pan&#8217;s success at concentrating the focus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/11026321\/Bee-snake-and-scorpion-venom-could-be-used-to-fight-cancer.html\">scorpion, snake, and bee venom<\/a> on the cancer cells without destroying healthy cells and ultimately harming the patient.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pan and his team were able to &#8220;camouflage&#8221; the venom in a tiny particle. This takes the venom directly to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bioengineering.illinois.edu\/news\/venom-gets-good-buzz-potential-cancer-fighter\">targeted cancer cells <\/a>without allowing it to leak into the bloodstream of patients and damage the heart, nerve cells, or other healthy tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers discovered that venom from snakes, scorpions, and bees contain peptides and proteins that will attach to cancer cell walls. They also verified that bee venom contains a substance called melittin that prevents cancer cells from spreading. Bees produce such a small amount of venom that extracting a sufficient amount of the substance from them for laboratory testing or clinical use is impractical. The team developed a way to synthesize the melittin.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pan stressed that, while the venom from snakes and scorpions can be deadly, his team is able to control the potency and utilize them as a possible cancer treatment. The positive results from cloaking these venoms in nanoparticles could lead to human trials in then next three to five years.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 60 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/\">Issels Integrative Oncology<\/a> has been providing safe and successful immunotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are optimistic about attacking cancer cells with the poisonous venoms most of us desperately try to avoid. Dr. Dipanjan Pan led a team at the University of Illinois that has successfully and safely targeted breast cancer and melanoma cells in a lab. While being able to kill cancer cells and prevent them from multiplying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/venoms-may-be-used-to-fight-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venoms May Be Used to Fight Cancer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,203],"tags":[229,337,370,276,257],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-cancer-research","tag-advanced-cancer-treatment","tag-cancer-targeting-treatments","tag-cancer-therapies","tag-low-fat-diets-and-cancer","tag-venom-treatment"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}