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

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other ...

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

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

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.

Blood from a snake enthusiast who's been bitten hundreds of times aided the search for a universal snakebite treatment ...

Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of ...

A Wisconsin man voluntarily injected himself with snake venom and let various snakes bite him for 20 years. His blood may ...

A new antivenom relies on antibodies from the blood of Tim Friede, who immunized himself against snakebites by injecting increasing doses of venom into his body.

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

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

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