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IRAN CLAIMS IT PRODUCED ANTI-CANCER DRUG OF REPTILE VENOMS
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 25, 2011 - 18:41 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iranian scientists say they managed to produce a
new type of anti-cancer drug using the venoms of reptiles like snakes
and scorpions, Fars News Agency reported.
"After several years of research and studies on a combination of
snake and scorpion venoms, the anti-cancer drug was produced in Iran,"
Abbas Zare, the Director of the Venomous Animals Department of Iran's
Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, told reporters on Tuesday,
October 25.
"This anti-cancer drug has been produced from snake and scorpion venoms
after 10 years of research work and has been extracted from the fat
(peptide) of such animals," he added
Zare said that the anti-cancer drug has passed laboratory tests and
it is waiting for the Iranian health ministry's permission to be
experimented on human beings.
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 25, 2011 - 18:41 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iranian scientists say they managed to produce a
new type of anti-cancer drug using the venoms of reptiles like snakes
and scorpions, Fars News Agency reported.
"After several years of research and studies on a combination of
snake and scorpion venoms, the anti-cancer drug was produced in Iran,"
Abbas Zare, the Director of the Venomous Animals Department of Iran's
Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, told reporters on Tuesday,
October 25.
"This anti-cancer drug has been produced from snake and scorpion venoms
after 10 years of research work and has been extracted from the fat
(peptide) of such animals," he added
Zare said that the anti-cancer drug has passed laboratory tests and
it is waiting for the Iranian health ministry's permission to be
experimented on human beings.