Mark Smythe says funnel-web venom is being trialled on patients to treat heart attacks and stroke. Footage supplied by ...

Venom from the deadly funnel-web spider could soon be the key to preventing damage from heart attacks and strokes, as a ...

Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...

Venom from a spider found on K'gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, has been used to develop a drug that prevents damage ...

Professor Glenn King from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience said his team had published “exceptionally promising” ...

The experimental treatment, called IB409, aims to protect the heart and brain during heart attacks and strokes by preventing ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 8 (Xinhua/APP): A potentially life-saving treatment for heart attacks and strokes, derived from the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders, has entered human trials, researchers in ...

Professor Nathan Palpant, Professor Mark Smythe and Professor Glenn King.(Photo credit: The University of Queensland. ) A ...

A potential breakthrough treatment derived from the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has taken a major step toward human trials after securing $23 million in funding for a Brisbane-based ...