A new World Health Organization (WHO) strategy aims to halve the impact of snakebite, which affects 5.4 million people globally each year, kills up to 1,38,000 and leaves 400,000 suffering permanent physical and psychological disabilities.
The tiny bubbles, known as liposomes, are commonly used in pharmacology to encapsulate drugs, making them more effective in the treatment of disease.
Scientists from University of Adelaide in Australia have shown that widespread transfer of genes between species has radically changed the genomes of today's mammals, and been an important driver of evolution.
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