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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom 856 times over the last 18 years, and has he's helped create an almost universal antivenom. It all began when the former truck mechanic from Wisconsin ...

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