One man’s habit of injecting himself with the venom of the world’s deadliest snakes has led to the creation of a new ...

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

The research, published in Cell, describes how two of Friede’s antibodies were combined with varespladib, a drug known to ...

Co-Director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, Jim Harrison, was bitten by a Jameson’s Mamba snake on his hand last Monday.

Jacob Glanville, founder of San Francisco-based vaccine developer Centivax and lead author of the study, met Friede in 2017.

Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites.

A Wisconsin man repeatedly bitten by snakes to build immunity is now helping scientists develop a universal antivenom. His ...

Tim Friede voluntarily received those bites as part of a self-immunization process using escalating doses, which made him ...

A scientific team has created a serum that neutralizes the venom of 19 of the most lethal species, such as the black mamba or the king cobra, using the antibodies of an American man who nearly died du ...

Scientists in the United States have created a new snake antivenom using the blood of a man who deliberately built up ...

Increasing access to anti-snake-venom is not enough to protect people, experts say. What is needed is an ecological approach.

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