Antivenom (often spelled “antivenin”) is an antibody product that can disable a particular venom’s toxins. If injected quickly after a bite or sting, the antibodies in antivenom neutralize the venom, ...

Each year, over two million people fall victim to snakebites, resulting in more than 100,000 fatalities and 300,000 severe ...

Each year, snake bites kill upwards of 100,000 people and permanently disable hundreds of thousands more, according to ...

AI models are able to design molecules that don’t even exist in nature. Some have proven effective as snake antivenom.

Scientists have pioneered a groundbreaking method to combat snake venom using newly designed proteins, offering hope for more ...

The current way to produce antivenoms is antiquated. Experiments in mice suggest that an artificial intelligence approach could save time and money.

Despite being home to a whole cast of creepy crawlies, barely anyone has died from a spider bite in Australia in decades. We ...

The redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti) is one of Australia's most iconic arachnids. It's a member of the widow spider family, closely related to the black widow spider. They're famous for their ...

The AI-designed proteins neutralized lethal 3FTx toxins found in snake venom, which are often the reason that traditional ...

JAIPUR: Rajasthan is grappling with a serious snakebite crisis, as the medicines available in state hospitals are proving ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

Researchers from UW Medicine and the Technical University of Denmark have developed computationally designed proteins to ...