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any money in milking snakes?

People usually don't blab here for no reason, that's why I asked Nanci for those so I can read them too.

Thanks Nanci!!!
 
Very, very interesting stuff, Nanci. Thanks for sharing. I would have assumed that maybe the opposite was true, and that exposure might help to make you a bit more immune. Good to know how wrong I was. (Not that I planned on milking Cobras)
 
Alli_Draggy said:
Because snake venom is really, really complex chemically. That's one reason why it's hard to treat snakebites without the correct antivenin, because it's not just counteracting one substance, but a whole bunch of them with slightly different effects. It makes sense. Snakes in the wild don't just have one kind of prey or have to defend against one sort of predator, so they need venom that will be effective against the whole range that they might face. It's pretty amazing stuff, and they're finding more and more places where it's medically useful as well.

Harvesting venom is still on my top 10 list of "jobs I don't want", though.
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In addition, bacterias have very little to do with this.
Venoms are all cocktails of harmful chemicals- the body produces antibodies(well, horses do, actually) and this is the result of a rather elaborate chain of events.
Each snake species has a very different mix of chemicals... and so, you can't really solve it all with just one simple organism such as bacteria.

Maybe at some point we'll learn that all of these chemicals have a shared string, which, if it can be negated by a certain substance, that substance will be an "all cure" of sorts... but I kind of doubt it. Too many variables
 
Kokopelli said:
People usually don't blab here for no reason, that's why I asked Nanci for those so I can read them too.

Thanks Nanci!!!
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If you use that search term I mentioned, there are a LOT of studies. The one I copied is the best, though.
 
It's actually a citation of a study, I really should at some point try and read the whole thing to see what's the methodology used to test this. Interesting nonetheless, for sure :)
 
Kokopelli said:
In addition, bacterias have very little to do with this.
Venoms are all cocktails of harmful chemicals- the body produces antibodies(well, horses do, actually) and this is the result of a rather elaborate chain of events.
Each snake species has a very different mix of chemicals... and so, you can't really solve it all with just one simple organism such as bacteria.

Maybe at some point we'll learn that all of these chemicals have a shared string, which, if it can be negated by a certain substance, that substance will be an "all cure" of sorts... but I kind of doubt it. Too many variables
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I mean this in a different way it is possible to create bacteria that produce proteins. venoms are made up of enzymes and enzymes are made up of protein chains.

so why not have bacteria that create proteins ?

then have said enzymes introduced to live stock to create the white blood cells needed to create the anti-venom
 
cornbreadandmilk said:
I mean this in a different way it is possible to create bacteria that produce proteins. venoms are made up of enzymes and enzymes are made up of protein chains.

so why not have bacteria that create proteins ?

then have said enzymes introduced to live stock to create the white blood cells needed to create the anti-venom
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And that is how you create zombies....


Very interesting topic by the way. Nanci, nice study, interesting read!
 
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