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

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

Tim Friede still remembers the searing pain, the burning, the swelling, the moments when his vision blurred and his body ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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

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

Here's NPR's Ari Daniel. ARI DANIEL, BYLINE: Most people try to avoid venomous snakes. Not Tim Friede. TIM FRIEDE: My claim to fame is getting bit by snakes. DANIEL: Friede used to hunt garter ...