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 ...

A man who was bitten more than 200 times by dangerous venomous snakes has helped produce the most potent anti-venom ever made. Tim Friede, a Wisconsin man, has been injecting himself with snake ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists have developed a potent antivenom using antibodies from a snakebite survivor, which has shown early success in protecting against venom from some of the world’s deadliest snakes. Tim ...