Tim Friede did this because he wanted to achieve total immunity to venom, a practice called mithridatism which should not be ...

PARIS: For most, the day after September 11, 2001, brought profound sorrow and a sense of vulnerability. For Tim Friede, it ...

Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of the ...

Scientists are developing a universal anti-venom from a man's blood who has voluntarily injected himself with venom since 2000.

Tim Friede did something after the September 11 attacks so he went to his basement. He let two of the world's deadliest ...

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

“But I looked, and I was like there’s a diamond in the rough here.” Glanville’s diamond was Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California who exposed himself to the venom of ...

In 2001, after working up to it for years, Tim Friede finally allowed himself to be bitten by a snake. He started with venomous cobras because they're dangerous — and because they're what he had ...

What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Friede would know. Over the past few decades, he's let himself be bitten over two hundred ...

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.

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There could soon be a universal treatment for deadly snake venom, according to Trinity Professor Luke O’Neill.