Each year, over two million people fall victim to snakebites, resulting in more than 100,000 fatalities and 300,000 severe disabilities, according to the World Health Organization. These alarming ...

In the new work, the researchers isolated and compared venom proteins from a variety of elapids—a major group of venomous snakes including mambas, cobras and kraits. They found that a type of ...

AI-driven medicine could deliver life-saving snakebite treatments to the world’s most vulnerable. Every year, venomous snakes ...

Elapids are a large group of poisonous snakes, among them cobras and mambas, that live in the tropics and subtropics. Most elapid species have two small fangs shaped like shallow needles.

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

Biologists use the term ‘true sea snake’ for any of the 64 recognised species of snakes of the family Elapidae that spend the majority of their lives in the ocean. They even give birth to young in the ...

The study, conducted by the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design and the Technical University of Denmark, focused on neutralizing three-finger toxins – potent components of elapid snake venom.

There are about 700 species of front-fanged venomous snakes. Almost all of them belong to the families Viperidae and Elapidae. There are also 1,800 rear-fanged snake species. These belong to the ...