Tim Friede turned his body into a testing ground. Not for science, at first—but for survival. He was a truck mechanic in ...

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

Every year, tens of thousands of people around the world die from something as simple—and as terrifying—as a snakebite. In ...

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

Scientists hope to make a universal antivenom from the extraordinary blood of a man exposed to snake venom for decades.

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

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

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

One man’s strange fixation with self-administering snake venom may lead to a remarkable advance in antivenom development, but ...

All the snakes belong to the Elapidae family, which accounts for about half the venomous species of snakes (Cell 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.03.050). For their work, the team used the blood of ...

Scientists developed a groundbreaking antivenom cocktail using antibodies from a hyperimmune human donor and a small-molecule ...