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

A Wisconsin man repeatedly bitten by snakes to build immunity is now helping scientists develop a universal antivenom. His ...

Dr. Jacob Glanville, CEO of the biotech company Centivax, discovered Friede's story and believed that his blood could aid in ...

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

It sounds like the origin story of a superhero, but there's nothing fictional about what Tim Friede's accomplished. Since ...

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 ...

The research, published in Cell, describes how two of Friede’s antibodies were combined with varespladib, a drug known to ...

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

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

One man’s habit of injecting himself with the venom of the world’s deadliest snakes has led to the creation of a new ...

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