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 ...

Jesse Rothacker with Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary has few scaly friends. One of them is an adult Gila Monster named Chester with a venomous bite. But don’t let the word ‘monster’ in the name ...

Snakes have intrigued scientists for centuries. Studying these serpents has offered clues into their bodies, venom chemistry, ...

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.

Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of the world’s deadliest snakes, including cobras, mambas and ...

Neville Wolmarans knows the dangers of snake venom all too well. He vividly recalls his first black mamba bite, in 1971. With ...

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 ...

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 ...

While walking through the woods, humans instinctively scan the forest floor for signs of danger. A rustling of leaves or an unexpected shape in the periphery causes the heart to race and sends shivers ...

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 ...