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 ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

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.

PARIS, June 8 — Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the September 11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of the world’s deadliest snakes bite him. Four days later, he ...

Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the September 11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of the world's deadliest snakes bite him. Four days later, he woke up from a ...

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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 ...