Animals have evolved many different ways of protecting themselves, from prickly quills and razor-sharp teeth to clever ...

A venom is injected, for example by a snake’s fangs, meanwhile poison is ingested, which is the case for the tree frog which secretes its toxins to protect against predators. If you eat an ...

Male octopuses paralyse partners with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, scientists find - Octopus uses symbiotic ...

Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from ...

The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, and eventually a change in King’s research focus from cancer to venom.

A fundamental difference between venom and poison is how the toxins enter the body of the victim. Ronald's rule for telling the difference is straightforward: 'If you bite it and you die it's poison, ...

The hollow fangs of the Jameson’s mamba deliver toxins that can lead to respiratory paralysis—and a person’s death within hours. Venom—the stuff that drips from the fangs and stingers of ...

Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have completed a Phase I clinical trial for a new oral ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Aminiaturized version of the snake venom gland that secretes functionally active toxins can be grown from stem cells, researchers describe ...

HHMI researchers discover that protein related to snake venom toxin modulates receptors that are targeted by nicotine. Scientists have found that a protein resembling snake venom neurotoxin modulates ...