A former truck driver from California has been on a nearly 20-year journey of injecting himself with snake venom and his ...

Camp Grayling’s resident rattlesnake population is part of multi-year research expected to help conservation scientists ...

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

Tim Friede, a former truck mechanic, intentionally subjected himself to numerous snakebites over two decades, aiming to ...

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes.

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

US' Tim Friede endured 200 venomous snake bites over 18 years to build immunity-now, antibodies in his blood may help ...

The man was found to have undertaken "escalating doses" from 16 snake species so lethal they "would normally a kill a horse." ...

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

Scientists are developing a universal anti-venom from a man's blood who has voluntarily injected himself with venom since ...

Glanville’s diamond was Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California who exposed himself to the venom of snakes over the course of nearly 18 years, effectively gaining immunity to ...