Scientists in the United States have created a new snake antivenom using the blood of a man who deliberately built up ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

One man’s habit of injecting himself with the venom of the world’s deadliest snakes has led to the creation of a new ...

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 ...

Next, they determined which of the antibodies were broadly effective against two important types of neurotoxins found in the venoms of elapid snakes, a family of species including cobras ...