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 ...

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

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

Researchers from Japan's University of Toho, along with NASA scientists, have used the power of supercomputers to discover exactly when life on Earth will be wiped out. A study published in Nature ...

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