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Australia: venom from marine animals extracted to try to save lives
Australia: venom from marine animals extracted to try to save lives
(FRANCE 2)
In his laboratory in Townsville, Australia, Professor Jamie Seymour extracts venom from deadly marine animals and turns it into antivenom. The specialist even hopes to one day find a cure for cancer.
A few drops of venom were taken from a stonefish in an attempt to save lives in Townsville, Australia. In his laboratory, Professor Jamie Seymour studies the world’s most venomous marine animals, such as the tiny Irukandji jellyfish, which he has been stung eleven times. Once collected, the venom is sent to a laboratory to develop the remedy. It will then be distributed to hospitals across the country to treat common injections in Australia.
Cure rheumatoid arthritis
These sometimes deadly substances can also have benefits. This is what the professor discovered when analyzing the venom of the box jellyfish. “It’s a compound that cures rheumatoid arthritis in mice in less than two or three weeks, it’s huge”, confides Professor Jamie Seymour. With the study of marine animal venoms, his laboratory wants to go further and hopes to one day find a cure for cancer.
