KINGSTOWNE, VA—A large snake snuck its way out of an enclosure in a science lab at Hayfield Secondary School Monday. The snake got out after midnight Monday, according to WTOP. Fairfax County Police ...

If you’re unlucky enough to have a poisonous snake sink its fangs into you, your best hope is an antivenom, which has been made in the same way since Victorian times. It involves milking snake venom ...

Although snake venom generally has a pretty nasty effect on people, it's also used in the production of life-saving antivenoms, along with various other medications. It could soon be much easier to ...

The bucket from which the snake had been drawn was full of carbon dioxide gas, which temporarily sedates the snake, making the process less stressful for both animal and handler. Chacón, the more ...

If we told you about a small facility containing over 500 venomous snakes, you might think we were describing the lair of a Bond villain. But nope, quite the opposite—the Clodomiro Picado Institute in ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Tucked inside the Life Sciences Building at Bowling Green State University is a space many may not expect: a lab home to more than 200 reptiles and amphibians, aimed at educating ...

Snake glands have for the first time been grown in the lab as tiny balls of cells called organoids that become filled with venom. It might mean the end of “milking” snakes for their venom by hand to ...