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Following on from our inclusion in Sky News report on the need for new antibiotics we thought we'd show you some of our venom in action. This plate was dosed with one of our snake venoms specifically chosen by our scientists. The bacteria growing in a lawn are Staphylococcus albus which are clearly killed in a dose responsive matter by the venom. Work carried out at Canterbury Christ Church University.

We are excited to announce we are six years old. During those six years we have moved through three locations each time getting bigger and better. Now located in the amazing Discovery Park Community. We have shipped venoms to customers far and wide (USA, Europe, India and Australia). But most importantly we have facilitated work in a wide range of drug discovery programmes including new antibiotics, GPCR ligands, Pain therapeutics and Cancer biology. We have also gained a deep understanding of the venoms and the venomous animals (more publications to come). Looking forward we expect to further grow into the cosmetics and personal care fields as well as our global reach in pharmaceutical research.

With the domination of classical antibiotics coming to a dramatic end, it is time to find novel sources of antibiotics that circumvent the ability of the bacterial to evolve resistance.

New classes of antibiotics are being found in the venoms of several species. Screening these as you would for other compounds is already yielding promising results.

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