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. Researchers hope for human clinical trials one day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For nearly 18 years, Tim Friede injected himself with doses of venom from the world’s deadliest snakes. A snake enthusiast, Friede was regularly at risk of snakebites and always kept vials of ...

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