Scientists have pioneered a groundbreaking method to combat snake venom using newly designed proteins, offering hope for more ...

Whatever the assailant, though, snake-bite treatment has been the same for a century: inject an antivenin containing ...

Each year, snake bites kill upwards of 100,000 people and permanently disable hundreds of thousands more, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Promising new science, enabled by ...

Elapids are a large group of poisonous snakes, among them cobras and mambas, that live in the tropics and subtropics. Most elapid species have two small fangs shaped like shallow needles.

This unique group comprises two distinct evolutionary branches: the actual sea snakes (subfamily Hydrophiinae), kin to Australian terrestrial elapids, and the sea kraits (subfamily Laticaudinae), ...

Her research team, including international experts in snakebite research, drugs, diagnostics, and tropical medicine from the United Kingdom and Denmark, focused on finding ways to neutralize venom ...

However, the toxins that Vázquez Torres and her colleagues targeted are just a few components of the venoms made by cobras and other elapids. An effective antivenom would also need to block a ...

Elapids, a family of snakes that includes cobras and mambas, use their venom to disrupt nerve and muscle communication, leading to tissue damage, paralysis and potential death. A class of toxic ...