Scary spider picture at link, but OMG how cool is this?

Mrs. Albert · Mar 20, 2017

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spider-venom-could-help-save-brains-after-strokes/all/

It won't let me copy/paste the whole article, but basically they've found a very promising looking treatment for stroke victims in the protein of this creepy spider's venom. It drastically reduces brain damage on rats up to 8 HOURS after the stroke.

Paladin · Mar 21, 2017

Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider Dies of Leukemia.
Peter Parker, 17, Was Avid Student of Science, Photography

NEW YORK- Peter Parker, a 17-year-old high-school student bitten by a radioactive spider during an atomic-sciences demonstration Aug. 20, died at New York's Bellevue Hospital Wednesday night of complications resulting from leukemia.

Parker, who was described by friends as very interested in the sciences -and who had already earned a scholarship to attend Empire State University next fall- was standing near a display demonstrating the transmission of radioactive beams when an ordinary spider fell through the rays and onto Parker's arm. biting him in its death throes. Parker almost immediately felt dizzy and sick and was later taken to Bellevue by his Aunt May.

"This was no ordinary case of leukemia." said attendant physician Dr. Henry Pym, an expert in the field of radioactive-insect-induced cancers. "This ripped through young Peter's body almost overnight, affecting his reflexes, destroying his coordination, sapping his strength and scrambling his senses to the point where all the boy could detect was a constant tingling. It's almost as if this hyper-irradiated cancer had the proportionate strength and speed of a spider."

"All of us at Empire State University's Department of Atomic Studies offer our deepest condolences to the Parker family at this tragic time," said Atomic Sciences professor Hank Connor. "Peter was a brilliant student, a talented photographer and an upstanding young man. He taught us all that the power of the atom is great- and with great power must come great responsibility." Empire State will reportedly dedicate a physics scholarship in Parker’s name.

Parker's death marks the sixth atomic-accident fatality in the last month, arriving on the heels of Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, and Susan and John Storm all succumbing to cosmic rays during the maiden flight of Richards' experimental rocket, and U.S. Department of Defense scientist Bruce Banner's irradiation by the Gamma Bomb, a weapon of his own devising.

The Onion
August 29, 1963
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