Friede, a former truck mechanic with no formal scientific training, had been fascinated by snakes since childhood.

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is ...

Scientists have made a potent antivenom using antibodies from a man who has been bitten hundreds of times by venomous snakes.

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes.

Blood from a former construction and factory worker — and self-taught herpetologist — could hold the key to a universal ...

Californian autodidact herpetologist Tim Friede has spent the last two decades deliberately injecting himself with hundreds ...

Over the course of 17 years, a man named Tim Friede, allowed himself to be bitten by deadly snakes like black mambas and ...

Researchers may have found the key to creating the ultimate snake antivenom, and all it took was someone getting bitten 200 ...

Tim Friede might be the world's most snakebit person—and his antibodies could hold the key to a truly universal snake ...

Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites — on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world’s most ...