Biochemist Dr Tim Lüddecke from the University of Giessen in Germany points out that the treatment targets only elapids (like cobras and mambas), and not vipers, whose venom works differently and ...

Scientists have gone to extraordinary lengths to prove their ideas. Isaac Newton inserted a needle into his eye socket. Australian scientist Barry Marshall won a Nobel Prize after drinking a ...

The research team believe their new antivenom could be particularly effective in Australia because Australia’s venomous snakes are all elapids – that is, snakes with permanently erect fangs at the ...

Columbia's Kwong said that the published research focused on a class of snakes known as elapids. It did not include viperids, the other major group of venomous snakes that includes rattlesnakes ...

The team focused on elapids – a family of venomous snakes that includes mambas, cobras, coral snakes, taipans, and kraits. These snakes produce neurotoxins that can cause paralysis and death by ...

This antidote was tested against the venoms of 19 species of snakes classified by the World Health Organization as the most deadly, including cobras and elapids. The results were promising ...

The research focused on elapids – one of the two main groups of venomous snakes. Elapids use neurotoxins, which paralyze the victim and can be fatal because they stop the muscles needed for breathing.

The ultimate goal is to create a single antivenom or discover two injections which cover elapids and vipers. And Tim is planning on helping out for as long as he can. He said: "I'm doing something ...

The researchers examined Friede's blood for the most useful antibodies with the specific intention of targeting elapids, a type of venomous snake that uses neurotoxins to paralyze its prey while ...

The research focused on elapids – one of the two families of venomous snakes – such as coral snakes, mambas, cobras, taipans and kraits. Elapids primarily use neurotoxins in their venom ...

Tim Friede, centre, wanted to help develop better therapies for snakebite victims[BBC] The research focused on elapids – one of the two families of venomous snakes – such as coral snakes, mambas, ...