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

Researchers took notice of Friede's unique immunity. Dr. Jacob Glanville, CEO of the biotech company Centivax, discovered ...

Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of ...

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

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

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

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

A man who has been injecting himself with snake venom for the past 18 years has now been used to create the most broadly ...

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 ...

Tim Friede, a Wisconsin man, has willingly been bitten by some of the deadliest snakes on Earth—over 200 times. Now, ...