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A Molecule in Honeybee Venom Destroys Breast Cancer Cells in The Lab, Study Shows:
The study focussed(sic) on certain subtypes of breast cancer, including triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is an extremely aggressive condition with limited treatment options.
TNBC accounts for up to 15 percent of all breast cancers. In many cases, its cells produce more of a molecule called EGFR than seen in normal cells. Previous attempts to develop treatments that specifically target this molecule have not worked, because they would also negatively affect healthy cells.
[...] Bees actually use melittin - the molecule that makes up half of their venom and makes their stings really hecking painful - to fight off their own pathogens. The insects produce this peptide not just in their venom, but in other tissues too, where it's expressed in response to infections.
[...] "The venom was extremely potent," said medical researcher Ciara Duffy from The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. "We found that melittin can completely destroy cancer cell membranes within 60 minutes."
When melittin was blocked with an antibody, the cancer cells exposed to the bee venom survived - showing that melittin was indeed the venom component responsible for the results in the earlier trials.
The best part: melittin had little impact on normal cells, specifically targeting cells that produced a lot of EGFR and HER2 (another molecule excessively produced by some breast cancer types); it even messed with the cancer cells' ability to replicate.
[...] Taking their conclusions even further, the research team also produced a synthetic version of melittin, to see how it would perform compared to the real deal.
"We found that the synthetic product mirrored the majority of the anti-cancer effects of honeybee venom," Duffy said.
Journal Reference:
Ciara Duffy, Anabel Sorolla, Edina Wang, et al. Honeybee venom and melittin suppress growth factor receptor activation in HER2-enriched and triple-negative breast cancer [open], npj Precision Oncology (DOI: 10.1038/s41698-020-00129-0)
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @01:31AM
"I think it was a bee" Mark replied
"Well I'm gonna have to get the sting out then"
"How'd you do that?" Mark asked knowing full well how it
was done.
"You have to suck it out" Mandy replied, another
pleasurable sensation shot through her as she thought of
her lips sucking on her son's tender skin, she tightened
her grip on the back of her son's leg trying to get a hold
of herself. She moved her head in close, parting her pouty
lips she pushed them down over the bite, his hairs tickling
her nose,.
Mark let out a little gasp as his mom's lips touched his
skin, his cock flexed again, some pre-cum was forming on
the tip, his dick was aching, his mom bent in closer to his
thigh, her breasts rubbing againest the inside of his shin
as she tryed to work the imaginary bee sting out from his
skin.
Mandy was sucking hard, her wet lips pressed tightly to her
son's leg, she pressed her tongue onto the swollen bump,
she felt her breasts rubbing againest Mark's lower leg, her
sensitive nipples hardened becuase of it, she unconciously
moved her other hand a little further up the back of her
son's leg, cupping the bottom of his ass cheek.
Mandy started to rock her body againest her son's leg, her
pussy throbbing with desire, she took her lips away from
his swollen lump, but ran her hot, wet tongue over it,
leaving a trail of saliva behind, she had't felt anything
pop out the sting but maybe she'd done the job, she looked
up at her son, but all she could see was her son's cock
looming over her, she saw the sticky pre-cum leaking from
the end of his cockhead, showing up clearly againest the
deep purple.
"Ohh!" Mandy really could't help herself, the little moan
escaped from her lips as she looked over her son's cock, he
was obviously very turned on by her actions but she felt
some guilt also, she should't have got herself into this
position, he was her son, her flesh and blood but still her
body ached.
"You finished mom? It feels a whole lot better." Mark
said.
"Good honey" she was still looking at his cock, she started
to rub her hand over his bottom, feeling his hard ass
cheeks.
"But I've got something else that could do with suckin as
well" Mark looked down at his mom, he took his hand and ran
it through her hair, he moved his hand to the back of her
head and lightly took hold of her hair, pulling her up
slightly to the level of his cock, her full, red pouty lips
were barely an inch away from his cock as it jerked about,
waving in front of her face, the pre-cum dribbling down the
front of the full cockhead.
Mandy did't hesistate she opened her mouth, and ran her
tongue along her son's cockhead, licking the white sperm
from it, she raised her hand and gripped his cock shaft
tightly, she tugged on it, pulling his foreskin back and
forth, more pre-cum appeared on the tip and again she shot
her tongue out and licked away the white droplets.
"Ugghhhh!" Mark moaned as his mother ran her tongue along
the shaft and back again, he pushed her head towards his
dick, Mandy opened her mouth wide and took her son's huge
cock into her mouth, she felt it hit the back of her throat
almost and she started to suck on it extremely hard, her
hand pulling his fore skin back and forth as she did.
Mandy closed her eyes tight, tasting her son's hot prick as
she ran her tongue across the bottom of it.
"Uughh Mom! Suck It" Mark urged, his dick pulsing in his
own mothers mouth, he gripped the back of her head tighter
as she eagerly sucked his cock, bobbing her head back and
forth in a fast rhytm.
Mandy was't thinking about anything else but sucking her
son's cock, she gripped his cockshaft tighter, working it
faster.
It was to much for Mark, he looked down watching his mom
suck on his hard meat, he could feel her wet saliva all
over the shaft, he was meeting her bobbing head with his
own small thrusts, rocking his hips back and forth.
"Mom I'm gonna cum!!" he moaned, he felt his cum-sac
welling up with his spunk