Each year, snake bites kill upwards of 100,000 people and permanently disable hundreds of thousands more, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Promising new science, enabled by ...

Suzana Vazquez Torres holding a 3D printed model of a protein in a laboratory at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design in Seattle.

AI antivenom achieved an astounding 100 percent success rate in neutralizing lethal cobra venom.  David Baker, the 2024 Nobel ...

Susana Vazques Torres conducting research on new drug development at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design in Seattle.

Susana Vázquez Torres, a biochemist in Baker’s lab, was interested in tackling neglected diseases and wondered whether RFdiffusion could help to improve snakebite treatments. Snake venoms are ...

“This is probably the coolest experimental result I’ve had in my career so far,” says biochemist Susana Vázquez Torres. The tech giant Meta, which runs Facebook, WhatsApp and ...