Saw the above Nova programme about making things smaller. The Nanobee is in the final segment of the show. Where the presenter interviews and discusses the Nanobees with Samuel Wickline, M.D. - the man will most likely go down in history as the man who invented the swarm that kills cancer cells. Nanobees are in preclinical trials as I understand it from doing my own research on the topic. Today's article in the uk can be found here http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/behind-the-headlines-2-6629/nanobees-for-cancer-1-350068
Anybody else remember the articles about how bees were dying out for unknown reasons around the world? Colony Collapse Disorder as Wiki calls it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder.... Beekeeping in the traditional honey making sense not the Yorkshire slang. Hives and honey ...
Even more reasons to make sure bees are valued by humankind. What a surprise. It's been known a while that bee venom kills cells, the problem has been targeting specific cells and delivery, which now seemingly solved, we face the shortage of bee venom. Any scientists out there want to figure out if it can be man made, analyse the properties? Surely I can't be the only one thinking this....synthetic bee venom will be challenging.
Ironically, (for me back pain sufferer who just had an A&E visit for an opiate to relieve some nerve compression) bee venom is one of the solutions for chronic pain (just scroll down the following linked page to see the list of uses http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/hyaluronidase/hyaluronidase.html)
So, pharmaceutical companies should be sponsoring research into saving bee colonies, don't ya think?
In an ideal world scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and agriculturalists - bee keeping particularly working together - the thought warms my hippy heart... eternally hopefully for the best of humanity to come out ....
Anybody else remember the articles about how bees were dying out for unknown reasons around the world? Colony Collapse Disorder as Wiki calls it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder.... Beekeeping in the traditional honey making sense not the Yorkshire slang. Hives and honey ...
Even more reasons to make sure bees are valued by humankind. What a surprise. It's been known a while that bee venom kills cells, the problem has been targeting specific cells and delivery, which now seemingly solved, we face the shortage of bee venom. Any scientists out there want to figure out if it can be man made, analyse the properties? Surely I can't be the only one thinking this....synthetic bee venom will be challenging.
Ironically, (for me back pain sufferer who just had an A&E visit for an opiate to relieve some nerve compression) bee venom is one of the solutions for chronic pain (just scroll down the following linked page to see the list of uses http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/hyaluronidase/hyaluronidase.html)
So, pharmaceutical companies should be sponsoring research into saving bee colonies, don't ya think?
In an ideal world scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and agriculturalists - bee keeping particularly working together - the thought warms my hippy heart... eternally hopefully for the best of humanity to come out ....
If that makes me a hippy. Great stuff.
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