A company specializing in catching snakes showed in a photo it posted why watching where you step in the wild is extremely ...

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.

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

Vázquez Torres, Baker and their colleagues used RFdiffusion to design ‘mini-binders’ that recognize key regions of three kinds of toxin made by elapid snakes — the family that includes ...

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.

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 ...

These are important parts of the armamentaria of the elapids, a group of snakes that includes mambas. The AI track is led by David Baker of the University of Washington, winner of a share of the ...

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

Each year, snake bites kill upwards of 100,000 people and permanently disable hundreds of thousands more, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Promising new science, enabled by ...

"This is probably the coolest experimental result I've had in my career so far," said biochemist Susana Vázquez Torres.