Check out this CNN article

They're ready to sting, and they know where they're going.
MIT postdoctoral fellow Abigail Lytton-Jean explains machinery for making nanoparticle materials.
MIT postdoctoral fellow Abigail Lytton-Jean explains machinery for making nanoparticle materials.

They're called "nanobees," and they're not insects -- they're tiny particles designed to destroy cancer cells by delivering a synthesized version of toxin called melittin that is found in bees.
"Melittin, which would otherwise result in substantial destruction of your red blood cells and other normal tissues if it were delivered intravenously alone, is completely safe when it's on a nanoparticle," said Dr. Samuel Wickline, director of the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. . . .
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