Tim Friede, a 57-year-old former truck mechanic, spent 18 years subjecting himself to snake bites and venom injections in an ...

Tim Friede has been bitten by hundreds of snakes. And now, scientists are studying his blood to create a universal antivenom.

Tim Friede voluntarily received those bites as part of a self-immunization process using escalating doses, which made him ...

Scientists have created what they believe to be the most broadly effective antivenom to date — and its key ingredient came ...

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

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

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

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself ...

Blood from a snake enthusiast who's been bitten hundreds of times aided the search for a universal snakebite treatment ...

A Wisconsin man voluntarily injected himself with snake venom and let various snakes bite him for 20 years. His blood may ...

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other ...

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.