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Watch out, Spiderman!
« on: June 27, 2006, 07:20:30 PM »
Straight out of the Marvel comic books: injecting people with radioactive venom of a scorpion. But not to create a breed of superheros, apparently. It's to treat patients with a particular type of malignant brain tumor. I still think it's wise to check for any ... ehm, side effects, though...
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Re: Watch out, Spiderman!
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2006, 08:25:18 PM »
Hum,
And when in the desert, remember to check the inside of your shoes.

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Re: Watch out, Spiderman!
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2006, 09:27:38 PM »
"...And when in the desert, remember to check the inside of your shoes..."
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Not just in the desert: I was taking a leasurely dip in the swimming pool in SA (in Johannesburg) and I noticed something drifting in the currents in the bottom of the pool. On closer inspection I saw it was a scorpion. I thought 'cool' and fished it out, intending to dry it out and mount it in a block of resin. I really thought it was dead because it had been in there for a while before I got it out.
Imagine my surprise when the 'drowned' scorpion dried off a bit and started crawling away!
I caught him and he was my pet for a while. I fed him wood lice and made a little terrarium for him, but one day I got back from school and found out he had met with an accident. Evidentally my mother didn't approve of scorpions in the house.
Damn I miss that little fella, he had character man. (But I didn't mess around with him, no sir, no petting that thing!)
 

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Re: Watch out, Spiderman!
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2006, 09:29:49 PM »
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Straight out of the Marvel comic books: injecting people with radioactive venom of a scorpion. ..


Actually the Scorpion is a villian (one of many) created by Stillwell, and he didnt use radioactive scorpion venom :).   Brought to you by Steven Grants expert on all things Stillwell, Mr Tigger.
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Re: Watch out, Spiderman!
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2006, 09:31:59 PM »
@ Cymric

That treatment therefore falls under radio-therapy, but its delivery is governed by nuclear medicine. Pretty cool to link those two with an unusual carrier like scorpion venom.
 

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Re: Watch out, Spiderman!
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2006, 02:50:54 AM »
That seems harmless enough when you consider they are genetically modifying the AIDS virus in order to test medicine delivery methods or gene therapy.

Pity help us when the worlds of nano robots and genetically modified viruses collide.