Better living from scorpion venom

Date: September 22, 2010

This article is about how scorpion venom can be used for medicine and pesticides. Raymond John ST. Leger, from University of Maryland is an insect expert (entomologist) who experiment with scorpion venom. This venom is very powerful and has many toxic peptides. Scientists are using these peptides for experiments to develop medicine for cancer, painkillers, and also environmentally friendly pesticides.

I think that the article is interesting because the scientists use the peptides from the scorpion venom to make pesticides, medicine for cancer, and painkillers. The article interested me because I didn’t know that scorpion venom could be used to help people.

This article is connected to my life because the discovery of pesticides that copy scorpion venom can help farmers protect the plants from insects without harming the plants, big farm animals, or people. These pesticides are also environmentally friendly because they decompose and don´t get to water or soil. These pesticides will help us protect the earth, the water and the animals.


http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/63561/title/FOR_KIDS_Better_living_from_scorpion_venom