Tim Friede, a 57-year-old former truck mechanic, spent 18 years subjecting himself to snake bites and venom injections in an ...

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

Blood from a snake enthusiast who's been bitten hundreds of times aided the search for a universal snakebite treatment ...

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A man who has been injecting himself with snake venom for the past 18 years has now been used to create the most broadly ...

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

Tim Friede has spent nearly two decades building immunity to venom and now scientists are using his blood to help create a ...

Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of ...

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

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

A new antivenom relies on antibodies from the blood of Tim Friede, who immunized himself against snakebites by injecting increasing doses of venom into his body.

Over the course of 18 years, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times. His actions ...