venom

Existing scorpion antivenoms are produced by injecting horses with venom and harvesting their plasma antibodies, making them expensive to produce, variable and effective only against specific species.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Riffing on the human need for emotional engagement through the arts with such venom is not just a slap in the face; it’s evidence of Iñárritu’s gnawing insecurities.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

The venom peptides that snakes and snails use are built as closed loops, which is what lets them survive intact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

They use their potent venom to kill prey and are not considered dangerous to people because humans don’t look anything like food to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

This was the Fowleses’ other awful news: Father had walked or hitchhiked all the way over to the Kikongo mission in an agitated state, bellowing that his guts were on fire with venom.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The scientific research in those cases involved work around the mosquito-born chikungunya virus, a "highly-pathogenic" strain of the bird flu, a family of viruses that include smallpox and mpox, venoms and other toxins.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

For the past five years, The Liana Trust has been studying venoms from species beyond the big four to develop antidotes to them.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

And yet, despite the great ecological and economic importance of hymenopterans, very little is known about the evolutionary development of their venoms.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023

And so natural selection would have endowed organisms with means that help them solve conflicts in their favor: fangs, antlers, neurotoxic venoms.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2022

Insects produce a variety of venoms, attractants, repellants.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson