Snakebites: we thought we’d created a winning new antivenom but then it flopped. Why that turned out to be a good thing

By Christoffer Vinther Sørensen, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Center for Antibody Technologies, Technical University of Denmark
Andreas Hougaard Laustsen, Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark
Bruno Lomonte, Emeritus Professor, Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica
Julián Fernández, Researcher at Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica

By reporting this new way that future antivenoms can fail, the research has highlighted a problem with current antivenom testing recommendations.

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