News

Friede, a former truck mechanic with no formal scientific training, had been fascinated by snakes since childhood.
Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites—on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world's most dangerous ...
Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...
There’s not a moment’s hesitation, let alone fear, as Tim Friede strides into his basement office and proceeds to let two of the world’s most venomous snakes sink their fangs into him.
Tim Friede turned his body into a testing ground. Not for science, at first—but for survival. He was a truck mechanic in ...
Jacob Glanville, the CEO of a biotech company called Centivax, had a mission: to develop a universal antivenom against ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his ...
Over about two decades, Tim Friede has allowed venomous snakes to bite him hundreds of times, including Egyptian cobras, black mambas and diamondbacks. By starting with low doses of the toxins and ...
For nearly two decades, Tim Friede turned his body into a testing ground. Not for science, at first—but for survival. He was a truck mechanic in Wisconsin with a love for snakes. But Friede didn ...
In this edition of Newsmaker, John Hook interviews ASU Professor Hitendra Chaturvedi on President Trump's economic impact, followed by a conversation with Tim Friede, known as "Snake Man." ...