A study by this year's Nobel Laureate in Chemistry reveals a possible game-changer in snakebite treatment. Researchers have ...

Whatever the assailant, though, snake-bite treatment has been the same for a century: inject an antivenin containing antibodies produced in a horse or sheep.

New proteins not found in nature have now been designed to counteract certain highly poisonous components of snake venom. The ...

A groundbreaking study led by Nobel Laureate David Baker and Timothy Patrick Jenkins introduces innovative, computationally ...

Novel proteins have been designed to neutralise some of the deadliest molecules in snake venom. The proteins, which were ...

Antivenoms often need to be transported in cold storage, however, India’s rural parts lack the supporting infrastructure and ...

The current way to produce antivenoms is antiquated. Experiments in mice suggest that an artificial intelligence approach could save time and money.

Each year, snake bites kill upwards of 100,000 people and permanently disable hundreds of thousands more, according to ...

It has been a few years since AI began successfully tackling the challenge of predicting the three-dimensional structure of ...

Monash University scientists have identified an immune system power play behind serious bee venom allergy, which lands twice as many Australians in ...

At present, venomous snakebites from elapids are treated with antibodies taken from the plasma of animals that have been immunized against the snake toxin. Producing the antibodies is costly ...