Tim Friede, a former truck mechanic, intentionally subjected himself to numerous snakebites over two decades, aiming to ...

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes medical breakthroughs can come from unexpected places. Tim Friede, a snake enthusiast in the United States, spent ...

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom 856 times over the last 18 years, and has he's helped create an almost universal antivenom. It all began when the former truck mechanic from Wisconsin ...

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

It sounds like the origin story of a superhero, but there's nothing fictional about what Tim Friede's accomplished. Since ...

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

Rattlesnakes are emerging from winter dens. Here are some of the most widely held misconceptions of one of the most common venomous snakes in the U.S.