Watch Scientific Methods & The Venom Cure
- NR
- 2007
- 31 min
Most people think of venom as something to be avoided at all costs since some animals use it to kill other animals or humans. But modern researchers now use scientific methods to study animal toxins, and they have discovered that the thousands of venom types on planet earth may help cure or control many human ailments, from chronic pain to life-threatening bleeding to cancer and Parkinson's disease. This program dramatizes worldwide case studies of venomous animals, their sometimes hair-raising captures by scientists, and the laboratory processes that could create one man's cure from another creature's poison.