If you’ve ever spent time in the Australian bush, you’ll know that snakes are just a part of life—albeit a slithery, ...

Co-Director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, Jim Harrison, was bitten by a Jameson’s Mamba snake on his hand last Monday.

Co-Director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, Jim Harrison, was bitten by a Jameson’s Mamba snake on his hand last Monday.

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

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

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

Bennett True set a goal last summer that others might find unthinkable: to give a live demonstration with highly venomous ...

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

Scientists in the United States have created a new snake antivenom using the blood of a man who deliberately built up ...

Some 100,000 people die from snakebites each year, largely in the developing world, while up to 400,000 suffer amputations or ...

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 ...