Snake venom contains many proteins that damage the body, though key toxic sites often remain similar across species.

Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of the continent.

New broad-spectrum antivenom, made up of just eight nanobodies to counter venom from diverse sub-Saharan African snake ...

What kind of person lets a black mamba sink its fangs into their arm-on purpose-and then comes back for more? For Tim Friede, ...

Every year, about 7,000 people die and 10,000 require amputations annually in sub-Saharan Africa. A new, broad-spectrum ...

The new study challenges that idea head-on. A team led by Professor Andreas Hougaard Laustsen-Kiel from DTU Bioengineering ...

Over 5 million people are bitten by snakes every year, according to the World Health Organization. Many effective antivenoms ...