http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/14432.html

*Tumors feel the deadly sting of nanobees*

By Gwen Ericson

 Aug. 10, 2009 -- When bees sting, they pump poison into their victims. Now
the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumor cells by researchers
at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers
attached the major component of bee venom to nano-sized spheres that they
call nanobees.

In mice, nanobees delivered the bee toxin melittin to tumors while
protecting other tissues from the toxin's destructive power. The mice's
tumors stopped growing or shrank. The nanobees' effectiveness against cancer
in the mice is reported in advance online publication Aug. 10 in the *Journal
of Clinical Investigation*.

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