Tim Friede voluntarily injected himself with venom and endured over 200 snake bites in hopes of building immunity and helping create a universal antivenom. Now, scientists are using antibodies from ...

A new cocktail described in the journal Cell fully protected mice against a lethal dose of venom from 13 deadly snake species ...

Tim Friede, a 57-year-old former truck mechanic, spent 18 years subjecting himself to snake bites and venom injections in an attempt to immunize himself against deadly venom.

Tim Friede, 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.

TIM FRIEDE: My claim to fame is getting bit by snakes. DANIEL: Friede used to hunt garter snakes growing up in Wisconsin. As an adult, his obsession turned to venomous snakes and the harm they ...

In 2001, after working up to it for years, Tim Friede finally allowed himself to be bitten by a snake. He started with venomous cobras because they're dangerous — and because they're what he had ...

Tim Friede, Photo: Centivax . Early disaster. In 2000, he began exposing himself to venom. He started with scorpions but soon changed to snakes. A year later, he let two cobras bite him.

Tim Friede is a truck mechanic and snake enthusiast from Wisconsin. Between 2001 and 2018, he was bitten hundreds of times by the world’s deadliest snakes: black mambas, water cobras, and kraits ...

Tim Friede, a Wisconsin resident with a long-standing fascination for venomous creatures, has endured hundreds of snake bites, many self-inflicted, in a quest to build immunity.

Tim Friede, 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.