SYDNEY, July 18, 2024
From our Overseas Bureau
Reportedly, around 1.8 million people world-wide are bitten by snakes each year. Of those, up to 138,000 die and another 400,000 end up with permanent scarring and disability.
Many cobras have tissue-damaging venoms that can’t be treated with current anti-venoms. But, now it has been discovered that cheap, readily available blood-thinning medications can be repurposed as antidotes for these venoms.
Using C.R.I.S.P.R. Gene-editing Technology we learned more about how these venoms attack our cells and found out that a common class of drugs called heparinoids can protect tissue from the venom. A research published today in Science Translational Medicine, said.
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