Over the course of 18 years, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times. His actions ...

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

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...

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

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other ...

A new antivenom relies on antibodies from the blood of Tim Friede, who immunized himself against snakebites by injecting increasing doses of venom into his body.

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

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

A cocktail of 3 agents provides broad protection against 13 deadly snakes, but a ‘universal antivenom’ isn’t on the horizon ...

Tim Friede began willingly injecting himself with escalating doses of venom from 16 snake species. | Eighteen years ago, Tim ...

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 ...