{"id":183540,"date":"2024-02-24T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/universal-antivenom-for-lethal-snake-toxins-developed-by-researchers"},"modified":"2024-02-24T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T19:24:00","slug":"universal-antivenom-for-lethal-snake-toxins-developed-by-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/universal-antivenom-for-lethal-snake-toxins-developed-by-researchers","title":{"rendered":"Universal antivenom for lethal snake toxins developed by researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-antivenom-for-lethal-snake-toxins-developed-by-researchers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scripps Research scientists have developed an antibody that can block the effects of lethal toxins in the venoms of a wide variety of snakes found throughout Africa, Asia and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The antibody, which protected mice from the normally deadly venom of snakes including black mambas and king cobras, is described in <i>Science Translational Medicine<\/i>. The new research used forms of the toxins produced in the laboratory to screen billions of different human antibodies and identify one that can block the toxins\u2019 activity. It represents a large step toward a universal antivenom that would be effective against the venom of all snakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis antibody works against one of the major toxins found across numerous snake species that contribute to tens of thousands of deaths every year,\u201d says senior author Joseph Jardine, Ph.D., assistant professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research. \u201cThis could be incredibly valuable for people in low-and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/middle-income+countries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">middle-income countries<\/a> that have the largest burden of deaths and injuries from snakebites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripps Research scientists have developed an antibody that can block the effects of lethal toxins in the venoms of a wide variety of snakes found throughout Africa, Asia and Australia. The antibody, which protected mice from the normally deadly venom of snakes including black mambas and king cobras, is described in Science Translational Medicine. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}