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

Tim Friede joins ‘America Reports’ to share his story of enduring more than 200 snake bites and 700 venom injections to aid in the development of anti-venom and advance venom immunity research.

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

Tim Friede has been bitten by hundreds of snakes. And now, scientists are studying his blood to create a universal antivenom.

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his ...

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

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

Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of ...

Jacob Glanville, the CEO of a biotech company called Centivax, had a mission: to develop a universal antivenom against ...

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 ...