The black widow spider can be found on every continent ... effect on breathing may make painkillers more dangerous. The only antivenom uses potentially harmful horse proteins, making it a last ...

closely related to the black widow spider. They're famous for their distinctive red markings and potent venom. While redback spider bites can cause pain, advances in antivenom treatment have made ...

Mulford Laboratories expanded into the spider bite business in 1936, when they produced an antivenom against Latrodectus mactans—the black widow spider. In the past few years, snakebite antivenom has ...

The thought of black widow spiders is enough to send chills down one’s spine ... engineered antibody candidates could aid in developing effective human-derived antivenom against Latrodectus species, ...

The structure of a tetrameric form of the spider neurotoxin, α-latrotoxin, has been determined by single particle cryo-electron microscopy. It reveals a pore complex with extended arms that could ...

Taking to his educational wildlife YouTube channel, Jack can often be seen writhing in pain and rating some of the most gory encounters he's had with nature's most dangerous critters, from bites to ...

Antivenom usage and complication data for 1995 and 1996 will be presented. Red back spider antivenom is the most commonly used antivenom, with reports of usage being greater than for all other ...