Tim Friede turned his body into a testing ground. Not for science, at first—but for survival. He was a truck mechanic in ...

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

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking antivenom that protects against 19 of the world’s deadliest snakes, including the ...

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

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...

Meet Tim Friede, aka the real-life SnakeTok Avenger. While most of us freak out over a spider in the shower, Tim casually let ...

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes. Researchers hope for human clinical trials one day.

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.

In 2001, after working up to it for years, Tim Friede finally allowed himself to be bitten by a snake. He started with ...

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