Cobra venoms are enriched with toxins of low molecular mass, known as three-finger toxins (Panel A). Some of these are neurotoxins, which bind with high affinity to the nicotinic cholinergic receptors ...

Scientists in the United States have created a new snake antivenom using the blood of a man who deliberately built up immunity to snakebites by injecting himself with many different kinds of venom ...

Scientists led by 2024 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry David Baker, PhD, from the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, and Timothy Patrick Jenkins, PhD, from the Technical University of ...

It's a good example of how computer developments can be used for practical problems. This is pretty cool, and it's what we should be using AI for. I think there are a lot of practical applications for ...

Venomous snakes bite millions of people every year, most of them in India. Ravikar Ralph, a physician at the Christian Medical College Vellore hospital in India, is one of the people who treats them.

From rubber tappers in Liberia to sugar cane farmers in South Africa, bites from venomous snakes are a constant worry. 1 In sub-Saharan Africa—which is home to green and black mambas, spitting cobras, ...

Snakes are found in nearly every environment on Earth, and many possess venom powerful enough to kill humans. In this ...