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

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

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

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

Treatment combines existing drug with antibodies from hyper-immune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns ...

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 ...

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

Scientists identified broadly neutralizing antitoxin antibodies in blood from snake venom-exposed hyperimmune donor for ...

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 ...