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 ...

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

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

Tim Friede, a Wisconsin man, has willingly been bitten by some of the deadliest snakes on Earth—over 200 times. Now, ...

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

Tim Friede might be the world's most snakebit person—and his antibodies could hold the key to a truly universal snake ...

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

Experts have long called for better ways to treat snakebites, which kill some 200 people a day, mainly in the developing ...

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