Hannah Hirou

Keywords antivenom broadly neutralizing antibody elapid monoclonal antibody neurotoxin-protective antibody 3FTX LNX SNX PLA2 Introduction Snake-bite envenoming, which was added to the World Health Organization (WHO) list of neglected tropical diseases in 2017,1 causes 81,000–138,000 deaths and 300,000–400,000 permanent disabilities annually.2,3 For over a century, the standard treatment has been antivenom—a polyclonal serum derived from animals immunized with venom from one or more species of...

In the last 100 years, science has made profound discoveries and expanded in all directions. Behind the scenes, however, there has been a silent struggle for gender equality. This has had far-reaching effects. Courtesy of Frontiers for Young Minds Emily Jacobs is a UC Santa Barbara professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences who studies the effects of menopause on the brain as women age.

UC Santa Barbara researchers Justin Yoo and Michelle O’Malley, along with prior UCSB chemical engineering professor Patrick S. Daugherty, have innovatively reimagined the way that protein sequencing is done. In a recent study, they investigated the effects that different protein mutations in an adenosine receptor, a type of G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), have on ligand binding in humans. GPCRs consist of a massive family of cell-surface receptors.