Researchers have created a powerful synthetic antibody that counteracts the deadly venom produced by snakes in the Elapidae family—which includes the black mamba, king cobra and kraits.

A company specializing in catching snakes showed in a photo it posted why watching where you step in the wild is extremely ...

Researchers from UW Medicine and the Technical University of Denmark have developed computationally designed proteins to ...

Biologists use the term ‘true sea snake’ for any of the 64 recognised species of snakes of the family Elapidae that spend the majority of their lives in the ocean. They even give birth to young in the ...

Elapids are a large group of poisonous snakes, among them cobras and mambas, that live in the tropics and subtropics. Most elapid species have two small fangs shaped like shallow needles.

Vázquez Torres, Baker and their colleagues used RFdiffusion to design ‘mini-binders’ that recognize key regions of three kinds of toxin made by elapid snakes — the family that includes ...

Almost all of them belong to the families Viperidae and Elapidae. There are also 1,800 rear-fanged snake species. These belong to the family Colubridae. Many of them are likely to be venomous too, ...