Snakes, often feared, are vital for ecological balance, controlling rodent populations that spread disease and destroying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have published the first example of a synthetic sugar detection test for snake venom, offering a new route to rapid diagnosis and better antivenoms. Every five minutes, 50 people are ...

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 ...