PARIS: For most, the day after September 11, 2001, brought profound sorrow and a sense of vulnerability. For Tim Friede, it was a call to an extreme, almost unfathomable experiment.

A new cocktail described in the journal Cell fully protected mice against a lethal dose of venom from 13 deadly snake species ...

Tim Friede still remembers the searing pain, the burning, the swelling, the moments when his vision blurred and his body fought to stay conscious. But this wasn’t an accident. He had chosen to be ...

Tim Friede voluntarily injected himself with venom and endured over 200 snake bites in hopes of building immunity and helping ...

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 ...

Tim Friede, a man who injected himself with snake venom, helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes. Researchers hope for human clinical trials one day.

TIM FRIEDE: My claim to fame is getting bit by snakes. DANIEL: Friede used to hunt garter snakes growing up in Wisconsin. As an adult, his obsession turned to venomous snakes and the harm they ...

Tim Friede remembers his worst snakebites in screaming detail. The first was from an Egyptian cobra. The second, an hour later, from a monocled cobra. Both bites occurred at his home in Wisconsin.

Tim Friede, a Wisconsin resident with a long-standing fascination for venomous creatures, has endured hundreds of snake bites, many self-inflicted, in a quest to build immunity.

Tim Friede is a truck mechanic and snake enthusiast from Wisconsin. Between 2001 and 2018, he was bitten hundreds of times by the world’s deadliest snakes: black mambas, water cobras, and kraits ...

Over nearly 18 years, the man, Tim Friede, 57, injected himself with more than 650 carefully calibrated, escalating doses of venom to build his immunity to 16 deadly snake species.

Tim Friede, a man who injected himself with snake venom, helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes. Researchers hope for human clinical trials one day.