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

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

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.

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

Researchers took notice of Friede's unique immunity. Dr. Jacob Glanville, CEO of the biotech company Centivax, discovered ...

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...

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

Tim Friede, a former truck mechanic, intentionally subjected himself to numerous snakebites over two decades, aiming to develop immunity. His unusual experiment led to a breakthrough in antivenom ...

Tim Friede turned his body into a testing ground. Not for science, at first—but for survival. He was a truck mechanic in ...

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