Seth steps away from bleak and depressing news to share a news story about Tim Friede, a man from Wisconsin who has been ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking antivenom that protects against 19 of the world’s deadliest snakes, including the ...

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

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.

Over the course of 17 years, a man named Tim Friede, allowed himself to be bitten by deadly snakes like black mambas and ...

Scientists have made a potent antivenom using antibodies from a man who has been bitten hundreds of times by venomous snakes.

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

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

In today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes, Brad Spakowitz tells us more about Tim Friede, how he developed his hyper-immunity, and how his blood could lead to new, life-saving medical treatments.