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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To evaluate the antibodies, the team created a test panel of venoms from 19 genetically and geographically diverse elapid species, based on the World Health Organization’s list of the most medically ...