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

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

People can be forgiven for thinking Tim Friede isn’t quite built like most. But the Wisconsin man could be a literal lifesaver as scientists study his blood.

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

Tim Friede is a truck mechanic and snake enthusiast from Wisconsin. Between 2001 and 2018, he was bitten hundreds of times by the world’s deadliest snakes: black mambas, water cobras ...

“But I looked, and I was like there’s a diamond in the rough here.” Glanville’s diamond was Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California who exposed himself to the venom of ...

Over nearly 18 years, the man, Tim Friede, 57, injected himself with more than 650 carefully calibrated, escalating doses of venom to build his immunity to 16 deadly snake species. He also allowed ...

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