Antivenom (often spelled “antivenin”) is an antibody product that can disable a particular venom’s toxins. If injected quickly after a bite or sting, the antibodies in antivenom neutralize the venom, ...

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Bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE) antibodies have shown efficacy in hematological malignancies and are being tested in a variety of solid tumors. Other strategies including bispecific antibodies in ...

Their painful bites contain a cocktail of chemicals, primarily the highly conserved alpha-latrotoxin (α-LTX). This toxin induces latrodectism, an illness causing severe pain. Horse-derived antibodies ...

by injecting an animal like a horse with a tiny amount of snake venom and then harvesting the antibodies to the bite from its blood. Each snake also typically requires its own specific antivenom ...