The Kinder Side of a Scorpion Sting. The venom inactivates cells’ immune functions and could become the basis for a new generation of immunosuppressive therapy to treat autoimmune disease and prevent transplant rejection, etc. And mosquitoes genetically engineered to produce scorpion venom (which has been found to be lethal to the malaria organism) could be released into the wild to supplant wild populations and prevent the spread of malaria. They tell us (of course) the bites of these modified mosquitoes won’t be worse…