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

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 ...

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

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other ...

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

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 ...

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

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself ...

A Wisconsin man voluntarily injected himself with snake venom and let various snakes bite him for 20 years. His blood may ...