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

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

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes. Researchers hope for human clinical trials one day.

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

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

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

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

The breakthrough is one step closer towards the creation of a universal snake antivenom that can save thousands of lives every year.Tim Friede's extraordinary path has resulted in a scientific ...

PREMIUM Self-taught snake enthusiast Tim Friede. (Instagram photo) Behind that clinical language lies the story of Tim Friede, a self-taught snake enthusiast from Wisconsin whose obsession might ...

Treatment combines existing drug with antibodies from hyper-immune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns ...