Question: : You recently wrote about rubbing a cut onion on a bee sting to ease the pain. Swiss farmers have practiced this for centuries. In 1949, when I was stung by a bee right near the kneecap and ...

Bees and snakes and scorpions, oh my. These somewhat scary creatures, however, could form the next generation of cancer-fighting drugs. Scientists at the annual National Meeting of the American ...

The words “life-saving” and “snake venom” rarely occur in the same sentence. But they've joined forces in a breakthrough scientific discovery: In a report recently presented to the American Chemical ...

Bee, snake and scorpion venom could be used in fight against cancer after lab trials by an Indian- origin scientist-led team showed that the toxins can kill tumours.