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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

Scientists found a single antivenom effective against 17 venomous African snake species. Until now ... this antivenom also ...

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

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.

Scientists have co-developed the world’s first product-ready, lab-produced, recombinant snakebite antivenom that protects ...