venom
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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
Protagonist spent more than a decade on the chemistry, drawing inspiration from an unlikely place: venom.
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
As the flood of venom rolled toward the goddess, the fumes began to make her cough.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
Scripps Research scientists have developed an antibody that can block the effects of lethal toxins in the venoms of a wide variety of snakes found throughout Africa, Asia and Australia.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
In recent years, animal venoms and toxins have excited researchers because of their pharmaceutical potential.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Beyond that is flat Lake Ontario, a zero at the beginning and a zero at the end, slate-gray and brimming with venoms.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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