A spitting cobra's incredibly potent venom can quickly destroy skin, muscle and bone around the site of a bite A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to ...

In a recent study published in Science Translational Medicine, scientists used functional genomics to dissect and understand the cytotoxicity of spitting cobra venom and define the genetic ...

But have you heard about a snake that spits venom to large distances ? The spitting cobra stands out among the other snakes with the exceptional capability of spitting venom, to not less but upto ...

A team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are experts at collecting snake venom. But spitting cobras are a double threat. Venom has a complex evolutionary history and the reason some cobras ...

Spitting cobras are renowned for their remarkable ability to spit venom with incredible accuracy, reaching distances of up to two meters. This defensive mechanism targets the eyes of adversaries ...

“Mozambique spitting cobras can bite, and have an extremely dangerous bite at that. Their predominantly cytotoxic venom causes swelling, necrosis (tissue damage), and a whole lot more,” Evans ...