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Welcome, welcome. It's another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Papp and Reggie Rizzou

with you. On today's episode is a universal snake anti-venom on the horizon.

Scientists are making significant progress, we'll tell you about it. New moons have been discovered,

and on this day in history, the witch hunt begins in Salem, coming up on cool stuff.

Could a universal snake anti-venom be on the horizon? Well, based on a new study

published in the peer-reviewed journal Science, Translational Medicine, it sure sounds like a real

possibility. Per the study, the diversity of toxins present in snake venom for various species

has always presented a huge challenge to the development of a universal anti-venom. Put more

plainly, there are a lot of different snakes with a lot of different venom, making it hard

for a single antivenom to protect against all of them. So in this case, scientists work to develop

an antibody that neutralizes a wide array of neurotoxins present in what they dubbed medically relevant snakes, a group that

includes king cobras, crates, and black mambas. Their results were promising as the antibody

they landed on sourced from a synthetic human antibody library with billions of entries,

meaning the antibodies, by the way, were created in a lab setting,

provided protection against snake envenoming in mice.

And in case you're unfamiliar with the term envenoming, it's just a fancy word for the severe

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