Published on: 2025-07-19 19:05:26
(Note: In case you were at ICLR and missed this, I did an interview with Sergey Ovchinnikov (of protein design fame) last week!) Another note: Just yesterday, the same day this article was released, the New York Times put this out: Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him 200 Times. I was scooped! Somewhat. I added an addendum section discussing this paper at the bottom. Introduction There has been a fair bit of discussion over this recent ‘creating binders against snak
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Image by Getty / Futurism Developments It sounds like the origin story of a superhero, but there's nothing fictional about what Tim Friede's accomplished. Since 2001, the 57-year-old Wisconsin man has let himself be bitten by venomous snakes on an incredible 200 occasions, inuring his immune system to the serpents' deadly toxins. Cobras, black mambas, you name it: Friede has weathered them all. That's on top of injecting himself with over 650 doses of increasingly potent amounts of venom. "T
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There really is a purpose for everyone out there. Scientists seem to have developed the most broadly effective snake antivenom seen yet—an antivenom partly derived from the antibodies of a man bitten by snakes hundreds of times. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the company Centivax detailed their work in a study published last week in Cell. In tests with mice, their cocktail protected the animals from 19 of the most venomous snakes in the world. This research could eventuall
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Sign up for The Drive Daily Email address Sign Up Thank you! Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. Is your Hennessey Venom F5, with its 1,817 horsepower and 1,193 lb-ft of torque, just not powerful enough? Hennessey has you covered if that’s the case, because the Texas-based company just unveiled its latest creation: the Hennessey Venom F5 Evolution, and it produces 2,031 horsepower. That makes it the most powerful internal combustion car, making all that power from its twin-turbocharged V8 alone.
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In a conversation with the Discourse Podcast from the Playlist, Tom Hardy looked back on his journey as Venom and revealed that the world very nearly got a Sony cross-over between his bumbling violent anti-hero and the heroic web-slinger. The process to bring Tom Holland’s Spider-Man into Venom’s world “got as close as I could possibly imagine getting,” according to Hardy. In fact, it couldn’t have gotten any closer “apart from doing a film together,” Hardy explained, “which I would have loved
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Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from one of nature’s most potent venoms A male blue-lined octopus mounts a female during mating and injects venom into her body WEN-SUNG CHUNG During mating, some male octopuses inject females with their potent venom to paralyse them – and avoid being eaten by their mates. Typically, animals use venom to kill prey or defend themselves from predators. Some species of pufferfi
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A malware campaign dubbed GitVenom uses hundreds of GitHub repositories to trick users into downloading info-stealers, remote access trojans (RATs), and clipboard hijackers to steal crypto and credentials. According to Kaspersky, GitVenom has been active for at least two years, targeting users globally but with an elevated focus on Russia, Brazil, and Turkey. "Over the course of the GitVenom campaign, the threat actors behind it have created hundreds of repositories on GitHub that contain fake
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