Over two decades, one brave man turned his body into a living science experiment. Using self-immunization, Tim Friede ...

After enduring some 200 snakebites and hundreds more venom injections, one man’s blood may be the key to a universal ...

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other ...

Learn more about the antibodies of a self-immunizing donor that could help create a universal snake antivenom.

A Wisconsin man voluntarily injected himself with snake venom and let various snakes bite him for 20 years. His blood may ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking antivenom that protects against 19 of the world’s deadliest snakes, including the ...

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

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

Scientists have developed the first broad-spectrum antivenom to neutralize neurotoxins from 19 of the deadliest snakes. Peter ...

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most ...

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

Those bites, along with hundreds of additional venom injections over 18 years, have put scientists on the path to a breakthrough: a potential universal antivenom. Though researchers say human ...