Typically manufactured from animal blood plasma, the antidotes often remain expensive, inconsistent, and difficult to scale ...

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical diseases. The WHO has classified snakebite ...

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

A groundbreaking nanobody-based antivenom offers new hope against deadly snakebites. Developed by Danish scientists, this ...

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

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

Africa's deadliest snakes, the boomslang and black mamba, showcase stark contrasts. While the boomslang, a tree-dweller with slow-acting hemotoxic venom, hunts by ambush, the ground-dwelling black ...

Black Mambas, Africa’s fastest and most feared snakes, can be a key player into tracking pollution, while at the same time keeping ecosystems healthy. New research from the University of the ...

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...