While searching for copper, he found gold: a new scorpion capable of something almost unheard of—spraying venom. The newfound ...

A fourth kind of venom exists in sea snakes and is known as myotoxic. It leads to severe and instant muscular paralysis ...

Over 30 years ago scientists discovered the potential of Gila monster venom as a treatment for type 2 diabetes. The desert-dwelling Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) is the United States' largest and ...

HB venom allergy represents a risk factor for a lesser effectiveness of the standard 100 µg VIT (protection rate of 75–85%). Besides the type of venom (HB), other risk factors influencing a ...

Professor Serdar Karakurt, a faculty member of the Department of Biochemistry at Selçuk University's Faculty of Science, has ...