India, Oct. 31 -- An international team of researchers led by Andreas Hougaard Laustsen-Kiel from DTU Bioengineering in Copenhagen, Denmark, has discovered what it claims is a game changer for snakebite, a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that kills millions across the tropics every year.

The new anti-venom is not made by extracting antibodies from the blood of large mammals like horses. Instead, it uses latest technology to extract antibody fragments or 'nanobodies' which are then used for making the anti-venom.

There are several advantages of the new method to make anti-venom over the old one.

The anti-venom made the old way produces a large, undefined mixture of antibodies, only a small proportion of which target and neutralise the ...