Scientists working at the University of Sydney and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have discovered that the commonly used blood thinner, heparin, can be repurposed as an inexpensive antidote for ...

A breakthrough discovery from a team of scientists scattered around the globe might soon help prevent death from exposure to cobra venom and other snake venoms. The researchers found that a common ...

Vipers and cobras, though both venomous, possess distinct traits. Vipers, with their heavy bodies and hinged fangs, excel at ...

On average, snakes bite 1.8 million people worldwide each year, and 138,000 of those are fatal. Researchers have now found a new treatment for at least cobra bites — a common blood thinner called ...

Following Nobel Prize-winning chemist David Baker’s recipe for cooking an antidote to cobra venom using artificial intelligence (AI) could be faster and more effective than currently available methods ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A monocled cobra that roamed a California neighborhood for days could have given a potentially deadly bite, a snake expert said Friday. "There's no indication that it's had its ...

GEORGE TOWN, Nov 17 — Sucking the venom out of a snakebite, a dramatic move popularised in movies, is not only useless but ...

The dangerousness of a snake species can be measured in multiple ways. Here is a look at the deadliest snakes based on the ...

Many people need lung transplants, and there is a major shortage of these organs in part because they are so difficult to preserve for the procedure. New work that has utilized some surprising tools ...