Yet treatments have changed little in more than a century — most are based on antibodies in blood serum taken from horses and sheep immunized with snake venom. These antivenoms vary in safety ...

In Australia, a captive snake has broken the world record for the most venom produced at one time. The snake in question, a ...

Snake venom includes a complicated mix of toxins, most of them proteins, that engage in a multi-front assault on anything unfortunate enough to get bitten. Right now, the primary treatment is to ...