Bees: Latest weapon in cancer fight - images

Honey bees (Apis mellifera)

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A picture of the mellitin molecule, which is the part of the bee venom that is being modified to produce new treatments for cancer

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Larissa Doughty using a cell culture to grow antibodies which will be joined to the modified bee venom protein (mellitin)

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Dr Dean Hewish and Deborah Shapira use an analytical machine called a flow cytometer to measure
the effect of the modified bee venom protein (mellitin) on tumour cells

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