Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of ...
Scientists have used alpaca and llama antibodies to create a next-generation antivenom that protects against a whole family ...
They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...
The team hypothesizes that the snakes have enzymes that convert the deadly substances into nontoxic forms, much as human ...
Snake milking is a vital scientific process. Trained experts carefully extract venom from snakes. This venom is crucial for ...
In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill.
New broad-spectrum antivenom, made up of just eight nanobodies to counter venom from diverse sub-Saharan African snake ...