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

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

Californian autodidact herpetologist Tim Friede has spent the last two decades deliberately injecting himself with hundreds of snake venom shots, all in an attempt to make him immune to fatal ...

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

Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites—on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world's most dangerous ...

Tim Friede, a former truck mechanic, intentionally subjected himself to numerous snakebites over two decades, aiming to develop immunity. His unusual experiment led to a breakthrough in antivenom ...

Learn about the herpetologist who put himself on the line for the sake of scientific discovery and innovation.

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom 856 times over the last 18 years, and has he's helped create an almost ...

PREMIUM Self-taught snake enthusiast Tim Friede. (Instagram photo) Behind that clinical language lies the story of Tim Friede, a self-taught snake enthusiast from Wisconsin whose obsession might ...

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is ...

Jacob Glanville, the CEO of a biotech company called Centivax, had a mission: to develop a universal antivenom against ...