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

Jacob Glanville, the CEO of a biotech company called Centivax, had a mission: to develop a universal antivenom against ...

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

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

Tim Friede turned his body into a testing ground. Not for science, at first—but for survival. He was a truck mechanic in ...

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes.

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

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

Researchers took notice of Friede's unique immunity. Dr. Jacob Glanville, CEO of the biotech company Centivax, discovered ...

Tim Friede has been bitten by hundreds of snakes. And now, scientists are studying his blood to create a universal antivenom.

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 ...