Scientists have sunk their fangs into a panacea for snake bites. The new antivenom can counteract the bite of several deadly species of snake with fewer side effects and easier storage. If made ...

S nake bites happen in the blink of an eye. Some can strike fleet-footed rodent prey in a flash of scales and fangs that ...

Antivenom, also known as antivenin, is an umbrella term for purified antibodies which work against venoms or parts of venoms.

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 ...

They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...

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

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill.

Colubrid snakes, such as the mangrove snake ( Boiga dendrophila ), which have fangs farther back in their mouths, lunged ...

Snake milking is a vital scientific process. Trained experts carefully extract venom from snakes. This venom is crucial for creating life-saving antivenoms. It also fuels groundbreaking medical ...

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

New broad-spectrum antivenom, made up of just eight nanobodies to counter venom from diverse sub-Saharan African snake ...

In Papua New Guinea, snakebites kill 2,000 people yearly. It’s a race against time, sometimes minutes, as Dr Kevin Pondikou rushes to deliver rare and costly antivenom to victims.