Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists hope to understand snakes better and specifically, why some bite and others do not. picture alliance / dpa A Brazilian ...
Snakebite affects millions of people each year. A new research project explores the conditions under which the jararaca pit viper of South America is most likely to lash out–and how this informs ...
In Brazil, a group of researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and the Butantan Institute has developed a three times more effective version of the antibothropic serum used to ...
A research team led by scientists at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, and funded by FAPESP, has completed the most extensive genetic sequencing of a jararaca viper to date. The focus of ...
Brazil records an average of 29,000 snakebites a year, leading to around 130 deaths. And it is in the Amazon that the greatest number of cases occur. This region is home to 38 of the 75 species of ...