do you know how they make antidotes to poison?

its pretty low tech if u ask me...

they inject the poison into a random animal and then harvest the antibodies it produces O_O

They use bacteria to produce insulin for humans. Same thing I guess.

wrong, everyone knows that all antidotes are obtained from a 14 year old's vagina

dont you mean poison to antidote?

He means antidotes FOR poison.

But seriously, Gareth, how else does one go about doing this? Its either, simply harvest antibodies of an animal and then cultivate them or take a culture of human cells from different parts of the body that the poison will affect and test minute amounts of poison -- record what happens, find the right meds (or make the right meds) to counter it or supress it...and in the process spends loads and loads of money?

Sounds more like making a vaccine. I imagine the way they would go about making an antitode for a poison would vary based on the nature of the poison.

na your body can break down alot of poisons as long as they have the antibodies required so your immune system targets it.

but certain ones it doesn't matter you have to chemically counter it

edit-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidote

{The antidotes for some particular toxins are manufactured by injecting the toxin into an animal in small doses and extracting the resulting antibodies from the host animals' blood. This results in an antivenom that can be used to counteract poison produced by certain species of snakes, spiders, and other venomous animals. A number of venoms lack a viable antivenom, and a bite or sting from an animal producing such a toxin often results in death. Some animal venoms, especially those produced by arthropods (e.g. certain spiders, scorpions, bees, etc.) are only potentially lethal when they provoke allergic reactions and induce anaphylactic shock; as such, there is no "antidote" for these venoms because it is not a form of poisoning, though anaphylactic shock can be treated (e.g., by the use of epinephrine).}

This post was edited by Garethsir on Feb 22 2009 09:32pm

Which is why I said the way they make them would vary depending on the nature of the poison

low tech he says