Venomous reptiles may provide a good source for new drugs for human diseases, researchers in Liverpool say. Venom has already been used to create drugs, but the chemicals in it are often too deadly ...

When a venomous snake sinks its fangs, a complex mixture of toxic proteins, enzymes and other molecular substances is ...

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.

Cassandra Willyard is a science journalist based in Madison, Wis. She covers public health, medicine, and more. Inside a two-story brick building, not far from the orchids and iguanas of the botanical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California, exposed himself to the venom of snakes over the course of nearly 18 ...

Nowadays, artificial intelligence is famous for its generative capabilities that simplify content creation, automation, and other tasks, but a new study tasked the technology to design new proteins ...

These included the black mamba, king cobra, tiger snake, coastal taipan, and Papuan black snake. Each antibody was given to mice, which were then injected with the snake venom. This allowed the ...

Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease, with an estimated 1.8 to 2.7 million cases occurring each year. Snake venoms, complex protein cocktails with diverse toxicity profiles, can cause ...

A new report has found that 99% of healthcare workers in India face challenges administering antivenom.

Inside a two-story brick building, not far from the orchids and iguanas of the botanical garden in Medellín, Colombia, wildlife technician Jorge Asprilla demonstrates how to extract venom from a snake ...