Researchers from Warwick showed the first proof of concept for a cheap and rapid diagnostic test that detects snake venom in the human body better than antibody-based techniques. Time becomes critical ...
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 ...
Scientists at the University of Oklahoma have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of snake antivenom. They have ...
Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of ...
Researchers have published the first example of a synthetic sugar detection test for snake venom, offering a new route to rapid diagnosis and better antivenoms. Every five minutes, 50 people are ...
To do this, they first immunized the camelids with venoms collected from 18 African snake species. Next, they extracted ...
Over 5 million people are bitten by snakes every year, according to the World Health Organization. Many effective antivenoms ...
THURSDAY, June 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Sweet! Synthetic sugars could be key to sussing out what type of snake venom is threatening a person’s life, researchers say. Specifically, researchers have ...
It is one of the world’s deadliest and most neglected epidemics. It doesn’t grab headlines like other problems because the ...
ATLANTA — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of the world's deadliest snakes, including cobras, ...
Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. Theirs is an unusual scientific collaboration, to say the least. Jacob Glanville is an immunologist, who worked for the pharma giant Pfizer before ...
(CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of the world’s deadliest snakes, including cobras, ...