Florence City Council passed second and final reading of an ordinance banning ownership of several exotic animals, including ...

A family of lizards known as varanids has evolved resistance to the venom of certain snakes called elapids, allowing them to ...

Tests have shown the proteins effectively neutralized venom from the family of elapid snakes that include cobras and mambas. "We demonstrated that these molecules could offer better therapeutic ...

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 ...

They then tested the antibodies' ability to bind to 3FTxs from various elapid snakes around the world. After repeated screening, they narrowed down their choices to one antibody that could bind ...

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.

Every year, venomous snakes kill over 100 000 people and leave 300 000 more ... Newly designed proteins bound tightly to three-finger toxins (3FTx), the deadliest components of elapid venom, ...