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

Tim Friede has deliberately allowed himself to be bitten by the world's most venomous snakes or injected their venom. Today, ...

Experts have long called for better ways to treat snakebites, which kill some 200 people a day, mainly in the developing ...

Scientists created an "unparalleled" antivenom by using the blood of a man who was bitten by over 200 snakes and injected ...

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

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.

A scientific team has created a serum that neutralizes the venom of 19 of the most lethal species, such as the black mamba or ...

"Snake venom is dangerous ... The drug cocktail the team created ultimately included three things: two antibodies isolated from Friede and the small-molecule drug varespladib, which inhibits ...

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