Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites—on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world's most dangerous ...

Tim Friede, a former truck mechanic, intentionally subjected himself to numerous snakebites over two decades, aiming to ...

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...

Friede, a former truck mechanic with no formal scientific training, had been fascinated by snakes since childhood.

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

Californian autodidact herpetologist Tim Friede has spent the last two decades deliberately injecting himself with hundreds ...

Researchers took notice of Friede's unique immunity. Dr. Jacob Glanville, CEO of the biotech company Centivax, discovered ...

Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of ...

PREMIUM Self-taught snake enthusiast Tim Friede. (Instagram photo) Behind that clinical language lies the story of Tim Friede, a self-taught snake enthusiast from Wisconsin whose obsession might ...

The breakthrough is one step closer towards the creation of a universal snake antivenom that can save thousands of lives every year.Tim Friede's extraordinary path has resulted in a scientific ...