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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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