Batroxobin has been used in therapies before. It’s been used to treat thrombosis and a topical hemostat as a method to remove excess fibrin proteins from the blood.

A nanofiber hydrogel infused with snake venom may be the best material to stop bleeding quickly, according to Rice University scientists. The hydrogel called SB50 incorporates batroxobin, a venom ...

Washington: A nanofibre hydrogel infused with snake venom can stop bleeding within seconds, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found. The hydrogel called SB50 incorporates batroxobin ...

Batroxobin is already approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration, though Rice's new hydrogel is not. The researchers say several more years of testing are needed before it is cleared ...

Known as SB50, the substance is described in the journal ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. The snake venom batroxobin is combined with nanofibre hydrogels from the Rice lab. According to the ...

Batroxobin already has Food and Drug Administration approval, but the lab’s hydrogel does not. It likely will be several years before SB50 could be available for use in patients.

Batroxobin isn't yet approved for use clinical use in the United States, but has been used in other countries and in research settings to explore its ability to stem bleeding in humans.

While batroxobin is already approved, the Rice lab's hydrogel has not yet won approval, a process he expects will take several more years of testing. Story Source: Materials provided by Rice ...

In China , natural batroxobin is included in the drugs approved for payment by the national health service. The total revenue for anti-bleeding agents in China is 2 billion RMB ($261 million).

Researchers loaded Batroxobin, which has been used as a coagulant since 1936, into a syringe with synthetic, self-assembling nanofibers that resemble a gel when injected at the site of a wound. In ...