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

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes. Researchers hope for human clinical trials one day.

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-taught venom expert Tim Friede has voluntarily injected himself with snake venom 856 times across 18 years.

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

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