After years of self-administering jerry-rigged antivenom and getting outright bitten by snakes, Tim Friede has a "hyper-immunity" against venomous snakes. Could his blood now hold the key to a ...

A self-proclaimed snake and venom expert has endured hundreds of snake bites so you don’t have to. Californian herpetologist Tim Friede has spent the last two decades deliberately injecting himself ...

A sidewinder raises its head to strike a human hand. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) A new Cell study suggests human-derived antibodies—first found in the blood of self-taught snake handler Tim ...

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is helping scientists create better antivenom drugs for snakebites. By combing ...

After enduring some 200 snakebites and hundreds more venom injections, one man’s blood may be the key to a universal antivenom. Over about two decades, Tim Friede has allowed venomous snakes to bite ...

What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Tim would know. Over the past few... A man let snakes bite him for years. He could be the key ...

Every year, venomous snake bites kill tens of thousands of people globally, and they permanently disable several-hundred thousands more. Now a team says it has developed an antivenom cocktail that ...

TL;DR: Tim Friede's self-immunization against venomous snakes led to the discovery of potent antibodies enabling a new universal antivenom effective against 13 snake species. This breakthrough aims to ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times -- often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites. Friede has ...

This undated photo provided by Centivax in 2025 shows Tim Friede, who is hyper-immune to the venom of various snakes, with a water cobra wrapped around his arm. (Centivax via AP) NEW YORK — Tim Friede ...