Toxins from honey bees have been found to kill aggressive breast cancer cells.

Using 312 bees and bees in Perth Western Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom, Dr. Ciara Duffy from the Harry Perkins Medical Research Institute and the University of Western Australia, tested the toxic effects on small breast cancer clinics. , as well as negative breast cancer, which has few treatment options.

The results published in the journal npj Precision Oncology revealed that bee venom quickly destroyed negative breast cancer and HER2-rich breast cancer cells.

Dr. Duffy said the aim of the study was to examine the anti-cancer properties of honey toxins, and the compound component, melittin, on different types of breast cancer cells.

“No one has ever compared the toxic effects of honey or melittin on all the different parts of breast cancer with normal cells.

“We tested bee venom on normal breast cells, and cells from small breast cancer clinical sites: hormone receptor, HER2 positive, and negative breast cancer.

"We tested a very small, well-charged peptide in a honey poison called melittin, which we can produce synthetically, and found that the synthetic product showed many anti-cancer effects of honey poisoning," Dr. Duffy said.

“We found bee and melittin toxicity significantly, voluntarily and quickly reduced the risk of negative breast cancer and HER2-rich breast cancer cells.

"The poison was very strong," Dr. Duffy said.

The specific concentration of honey toxins can lead to 100% cancer cell death, while having a small effect on normal cells.

"We found that melittin could completely destroy cancer cell membranes within 60 minutes."

Melittin in bee venom also had another surprising effect; within 20 minutes, melittin was able to significantly reduce the chemical messages of cancer cells that are essential for cancer cell growth and cell division.

"The bees slept with carbon dioxide and placed in ice before the toxic barb was released from the bee's stomach and the toxins released by careful separation," he said.

While there are 20,000 species of bees, Dr. Duffy wanted to compare the effects of honey honey poisoning with other honey populations in Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as bumblebees poisoning.