FACT: There is HOPE to cure cancer using the most expensive Scorpion Venom on Earth

Scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid on earth. It costs around $38,585,507.46 per gallon (3.7 liters).

It's more expensive than Thailand's King Cobra venom which costs around $153, 835.82 a gallon (3.7 liters).

Scorpion venom contains 5 million unstudied compounds. This is why it's called the " Cocktail of Bio-active Compounds". Scorpion venom is useful in medical applications. Proteins from its toxin showed antimicrobial activity. Scorpion venom also exhibited antimalarial properties. It can be used in the development of new drugs. A drug called
VIDATOX was obtained from Blue scorpions and it's known "Cuba's Miracle Drug". The drug shows promising anti-cancer activity. And it has been tested on more than 10,000 cancer patients. The drug demonstrated positive results against various cancers. Researchers are looking into using scorpion venom as painkiller. A peptide from scorpion venom can suppress immune responses. Allowing it to be used in the treatment of autoimmune diseases.There are nearly 2000 scorpions species and only about 40 species are poisonous enough to kill a human being. Collecting scorpion venom is called "milking".An average of less than 0.5 mg of venom is obtained from one scorpion. Milking process is an extremely difficult task and can be potentially Life-threatening. There are different methods of extracting Scorpion venom such as puncturing the venom gland, also called abdominal removal. This technique is unreliable and harmful to the animal and another technique involves electric stimulation. The Scorpion abdomen is electrically stimulated to release the venom. Electric stimulation results in larger quantities. Researchers have to developed a robot to extract scorpion venom. The lightweight VES-4 venom-extracting robot is portable and uses a remote controlled technology.
The robot allows for scorpion venom to be extracted safely and quickly and designed not to harm the animal. The robot can be handled by one person in the lab or in field. Current research on scorpion is progressing very slowly due to lack of large quantities of the venom. However, it could eventually revolutionize the way we treat diseases.