Scientists in Brazil discovered a spider on São Paulo’s coast with venom that fights cancer, offering a fresh approach to cancer treatment. Twenty years ago, the Albert Einstein Israelita Hospital and Butantan Institute teams started this work. They studied the Vitalius wacketi spider’s venom. Their goal was to find and refine molecules that could attack tumors. […]
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