One man’s habit of injecting himself with the venom of the world’s deadliest snakes has led to the creation of a new ...

Tim Friede might be the world's most snakebit person—and his antibodies could hold the key to a truly universal snake ...

It sounds like the origin story of a superhero, but there's nothing fictional about what Tim Friede's accomplished. Since ...

A Wisconsin man repeatedly bitten by snakes to build immunity is now helping scientists develop a universal antivenom. His ...

Key Takeaways Tim Friede let deadly snakes bite him over 200 times to build immunityScientists found his blood contains ...

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom 856 times over the last 18 years, and has he's helped create an almost universal antivenom. It all began when the former truck mechanic from Wisconsin ...

Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites.

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

Scientists took blood from Tim Friede, who, according to his online biography, began self-administering diluted venom as a ...

The research, published in Cell, describes how two of Friede’s antibodies were combined with varespladib, a drug known to ...

Researchers may have found the key to creating the ultimate snake antivenom, and all it took was someone getting bitten 200 ...