Tim Friede, a 57-year-old former truck mechanic, spent 18 years subjecting himself to snake bites and venom injections in an ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mr Friede began injecting himself with venom back in the 2000s to try and create an immunity to his venomous pet snakes, but ...

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

A man who has been injecting himself with snake venom for the past 18 years has now been used to create the most broadly ...

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