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

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

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

Tim Friede, a former truck mechanic, intentionally subjected himself to numerous snakebites over two decades, aiming to develop immunity. His unusual experiment led to a breakthrough in antivenom ...

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

Learn about the herpetologist who put himself on the line for the sake of scientific discovery and innovation.

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...

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

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom 856 times over the last 18 years, and has he's helped create an almost ...

Experts have long called for better ways to treat snakebites, which kill some 200 people a day, mainly in the developing ...