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

A groundbreaking nanobody-based antivenom offers new hope against deadly snakebites. Developed by Danish scientists, this ...

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

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical diseases. The WHO has classified snakebite envenoming as one of 21 neglected tropical diseases, resulting in between ...

Am 11-year-old boy in Australia died of a snakebite after his dad sent him to bed to 'sleep it off' after thinking he'd been ...

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

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

An 11-year-old Australian boy has died of a snake bite after his father sent him to bed and told him to “sleep it off,” believing it was the result of alcohol.

If you ever get bitten by a snake, don’t believe what you see in the movies. Tying a tourniquet, slicing your arm, or trying ...

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