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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia. Confusion over the Big Boy ...

Finding a spider in a pair of shoes, a laundry basket, or in a closet is never a pleasant experience. As Australia is famous for its diverse creatures and its frightening spiders, people that live in ...

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

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