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The February 2020 episode of 3 Minute 3Rs, brought to you by the NC3Rs (www.nc3rs.org.uk), the North American 3Rs Collaborative (www.na3rsc.org), and Lab Animal (www.nature.com/laban). 1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867419313236 2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027019303097 3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31852563 [NC3Rs] If you are bitten by a snake today, your anti venom treatment would be largely similar to if you were bitten 100 years ago. Anti venom is created by isolating antibodies from a large animal, typically a horse, after the animal has been given repeated injections of small amounts of venom. But due to issues with anti venom production, efficacy and safety standards, over 100,000 people worldwide will die from snake bites each year. Venom is a complex mix of molecules, which vary between different snake species and can only be obtained by milking snakes. This has been an obstacle in anti venom research. But now scientists from the Neth