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Honeybee venom induces cancer cell death in hard to treat triple-negative breast cancer with minimal effect on healthy cells. Using the venom from 312 honeybees and bumblebees in Perth Western Australia, Ireland and England, Dr Ciara Duffy from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University of Western Australia, tested the effect of the venom on the clinical subtypes of breast cancer, including triple-negative breast cancer, which has limited treatment options. Results published in the prestigious international journal NPJ Nature Precision Oncology revealed that honeybee venom rapidly destroyed triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer cells. Dr...

While waiting for a human heart transplant, Stan Larkin lived 555 days without the organ at all. To passers-by, the 25-year-old Ypsilanti, Michigan, resident appeared to be a typical young adult. He enjoyed taking his three toddlers to the park and hanging out with his younger brother, Dominique. What wasn’t obvious was that a gray backpack Larkin carried was what kept him alive. Inside that bag was the power source for an artificial heart pumping in his chest. Larkin’s real heart was removed from his body in November 2014. It was replaced with a device that allowed Larkin to stay home instead of in a hospital while waiting to receive a transplant. It finally arrived this...

A Chinese tech firm is racing to deliver what could be the world’s first “gestation robot”. The idea from Kaiwa Technology, based in Guangzhou, involves a humanoid designed with an artificial womb embedded in its abdomen, intended to carry a fetus through ten months of gestation and deliver a baby, according to Chinese media outlets. Slated for debut by 2026 and expected to sell for under 100,000 yuan (around $13,900), the robot aims to offer a pregnancy alternative for those who wish to avoid the burdens of human gestation. The announcement has triggered intense public discourse—from ethical unease to hopeful possibilities for the infertile.Recently, Chinese...

David Hampson is one of the UK’s greatest unsolved mysteries. For over a decade, he has been silently blocking the same intersection in the city of Swansea, for reasons no one can uncover. We first wrote about David Hampson four years ago, when he made news headlines in his home country of England for his bizarre habit of standing in the middle of a Swansea intersection, blocking traffic until police finally came and arrested him. He never talked to anyone, including the police, and preferred to spend months in jail rather than provide an explanation for his bizarre habit. (David Hampson (pictured), is a jailed 'human bollard' who refuses to talk to police, doctors and lawyers is...

In a landmark advancement for oncology and personalized medicine, Russia's Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology-the creators of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine -announced this year that it will begin human clinical trials of the world's first personalized mRNA-based melanoma vaccine within the next few months. Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Center, confirmed that this groundbreaking vaccine, tailored specifically to the genetic profile of individual patients' tumors, will start experimental administration as early as September-October 2025 in collaboration with leading Russian oncology institutions. Q. What are melanoma cells A. Melanoma...

A Chinese man who used his savings to support a free shelter for 348 “orphans” over the past 17 years has moved many people online. Huang Meisheng, 65, founded De Ren Garden, a house for orphans and children who do not receive proper care from their families, in 2008 in Fenyi County, Jiangxi province, eastern China. Huang became a teacher at 20 and a secondary school headmaster 10 years later. At the age of 40, he became the deputy director of Fenyi Education Bureau and headmaster of a local primary school.   (Huang Meisheng walks and chats with one of the children he has taken under his wing. Photo: Xinhua) He said he was motivated to establish De Ren Garden after...

The founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, who is said to be worth $22billion, has bought a 28,000 property in upstate New York for $23million. The 50-year-old businessman purchased the sprawling property known as Brandon Park in the Adirondacks, and plans to use for a conservation project. (Sold: Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of e-commerce company Alibaba, has bought a 28,000 acre property in the Adirondacks in upstate New York for $23million) (Plans: The extravagant Chinese businessman, 50, purchased the property to turn it into a conservation project, and also use it as a private retreat) But, according to the Wall Street Journal, he also plans to use it as a personal retreat....

Burning the midnight oil may well burn out your brain. The brain cells that destroy and digest worn-out cells and debris go into overdrive in mice that are chronically sleep-deprived. In the short term, this might be beneficial – clearing potentially harmful debris and rebuilding worn circuitry might protect healthy brain connections. But it may cause harm in the long term, and could explain why a chronic lack of sleep puts people at risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders, says Michele Bellesi of the Marche Polytechnic University in Italy. Bellesi reached this conclusion after studying the effects of sleep deprivation in mice. His team compared the brains...

DOCTORS were shocked to find a man had been living with a knife lodged in his chest for eight years after he complained of sore nipples. The 44-year-old took himself to hospital in Tanzania complaining of pus-like discharge oozing from below his right nipple.   (The man had been living with a large blade jammed inside his chestCredit: Jam Press/Journal of Surgical Case Reports) (Surgeons carefully removed the blade during an operationCredit: Jam Press/Journal of Surgical Case Reports) (He initially presented with pus oozing from below his nipple. Credit: Jam Press/Journal of Surgical Case Reports) Medics were baffled by the cause because he had no other symptoms. The unnamed...

It's the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth — a 54-pound meteorite that fetched more than $5 million at a New York auction last month, setting a world record. But in the West African nation of Niger, where the rusty-red rock was unearthed in the Sahara Desert, officials have launched an investigation into what they call possible "illicit international trafficking," claiming it may have been smuggled out of the country. Sotheby's, the auction house, has disputed the claim. The government of Niger says it has launched an official investigation "to identify the circumstances of its discovery and sale." While the country doesn't have specific legislation regarding meteorites, an...