Honeybee Venom Can Fight Breast Cancer, So Let’s Keep Saving the Bees – Green Matters

While the livelihood of honeybees largely affects planet earth’s food supply, the beloved bugs can also apparently use their venom to combat aggressive breast cancer cells. That’s right a new study to come out of Australia’s Harry Perkins’ Institute of Medical Research says their venom can actually take on (and defeat!) even the toughest of breast cancer cells. 
“We tested a very small, positively charged peptide in honeybee venom called melittin which we could reproduce synthetically, Dr. Ciar…

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