London: Scientists have said that a synthetic “chemical sex smell” could help rid North America’s Great Lakes of the sea lamprey, a devastating pest, dubbed as the “vampire fish”.

The sea lamprey has parasitised native species of the Great Lakes since its accidental introduction in the 1800s.
The sea lamprey’s natural life cycle takes it from [...]

People don’t usually see vampires as a redeemer. However, apparently stroke experts presume that vampire saliva may aid in saving brain cells in stroke patients.
Evidently a clinical trial is being conducted in order to test the effect of desmoteplase or the drug based on a particular enzyme in bat saliva. The name of this drug [...]