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

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

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other ...

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

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

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself ...

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

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

Scientists have created what they believe to be the most broadly effective antivenom to date — and its key ingredient came ...