In this edition of Newsmaker, John Hook interviews ASU Professor Hitendra Chaturvedi on President Trump's economic impact, followed by a conversation with Tim Friede, known as "Snake Man." ...

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

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

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

Friede, a former truck mechanic with no formal scientific training, had been fascinated by snakes since childhood.

Scientists have made a potent antivenom using antibodies from a man who has been bitten hundreds of times by venomous snakes.

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is ...

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

In today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes, Brad Spakowitz tells us more about Tim Friede, how he developed his hyper-immunity, and how his blood could lead to new, life-saving medical treatments.

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

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 block venom enzymes that harm nerves and muscles. The resulting treatment ...