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

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

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his ...

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

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

The breakthrough is one step closer towards the creation of a universal snake antivenom that can save thousands of lives every year.Tim Friede's extraordinary path has resulted in a scientific ...