A spitting cobra's incredibly potent venom can quickly destroy skin, muscle and bone around the site of a bite A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to ...

A breakthrough discovery from a team of scientists scattered around the globe might soon help prevent death from exposure to cobra venom ... that a common drug widely used as a blood thinner ...

Researchers said that blood thinning medicine Heparin can be repurposed as cobra venom antidote. The team from the University of Sydney and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine claimed they have ...

A commonly used blood thinner could ... Focusing on complications from cobra bites, Tian Du at the University of Sydney, Australia, and her team found that the venom targets a molecule called ...

Credit: PA Images A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, researchers have found. A team of scientists based in Liverpool, Australia ...

A breakthrough from an international research team has produced a cheap new antidote to deadly cobra venom using a surprising source—a commonplace blood thinner ... notes the drug may ...

They took venom from the African spitting cobra, which is known to cause tissue ... Heparin has been used as a blood-thinning medication for almost 100 years. The drug was tested on human cells to see ...

a drug commonly used to prevent blood clots, significantly reduces damage to cells due to spitting cobra venom. The team also found the drug could reduce skin damage in mice injected with the venom.

A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, a team of scientists based in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK has discovered. Snakebites kill ...