Scientists have sunk their fangs into a panacea for snake bites. The new antivenom can counteract the bite of several deadly ...

Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of ...

I try to nurture a sense of awe in the face of Australia’s alien (to me) natural world. But I miss the wet ferns in the Kerry ...

Snake venom contains many proteins that damage the body, though key toxic sites often remain similar across species.

Antivenom, also known as antivenin, is an umbrella term for purified antibodies which work against venoms or parts of venoms. To make them, snakes, spiders, and other animals are milked for their ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

To do this, they first immunized the camelids with venoms collected from 18 African snake species. Next, they extracted ...

Think all snakes are slithery villains? Think again. Here's why spotting one humble snake might just be the best thing to ...

Nature's most formidable predators are often female, employing calculated ferocity, intelligence, and evolutionary precision ...

Every year, venomous snakes kill more people worldwide than sharks, lions, and wolves combined—yet most of us barely give ...

The new study challenges that idea head-on. A team led by Professor Andreas Hougaard Laustsen-Kiel from DTU Bioengineering ...

Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent ...