Agumbe, Karnataka, also known as the "Cobra Capital of India," is a small village nestled in the Western Ghats. It is ...

Blood from a former construction and factory worker — and self-taught herpetologist — could hold the key to a universal ...

Sometimes medical breakthroughs can come from unexpected places. Tim Friede, a snake enthusiast in the United States, spent ...

A cute and crawly kingsnake with two heads is chowing on mice and chilling with its keepers at the East Bay Vivarium in ...

Mr Friede began injecting himself with venom back in the 2000s to try and create an immunity to his venomous pet snakes, but ...

Tim Friede might be the world's most snakebit person—and his antibodies could hold the key to a truly universal snake ...

The research, published in Cell, describes how two of Friede’s antibodies were combined with varespladib, a drug known to ...

Bennett True set a goal last summer that others might find unthinkable: to give a live demonstration with highly venomous ...

A scientific team has created a serum that neutralizes the venom of 19 of the most lethal species, such as the black mamba or ...

Increasing access to anti-snake-venom is not enough to protect people, experts say. What is needed is an ecological approach.

A cocktail of 3 agents provides broad protection against 13 deadly snakes, but a ‘universal antivenom’ isn’t on the horizon ...

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most ...