Man Gets Bitten by Snakes Hundreds of Times, but Scientists Claim His Blood Could Help Them Create a Universal Antivenom ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The paper’s authors sought to make an antivenom that would protect against a wide range of the world’s 600-plus venomous snake species. As a start, the team focused on the Elapidae family ...

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

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

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

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

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes ...