A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes.

The venom characteristics of Russell's viper, a snake responsible for a significant number of snakebite deaths in India, can be predicted using local climate data.

Treatment combines existing drug with antibodies from hyper-immune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns ...

Thanks to the efforts of a "hyperimmune" man who injected himself with snake venom a staggering 856 times over nearly two decades, U.S. scientists have been able to develop an "antivenom cocktail ...

New Delhi: Researchers have developed "venom maps" using local climate conditions that could help predict the venom characteristics of Russell's viper, a deadly snake found widely in India.

Tom Friede slowly increased the amount of venom he was exposed to over a 18-year period to try to build up tolerance. Credit: AP A man in Wisconsin has helped create a groundbreaking snake ...

Glanville’s diamond was Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California who exposed himself to the venom of snakes over ... the other major group of venomous snakes that includes ...

"Even across different populations of the same snake species ... researchers found that samples from the warm group were better at inhibiting the venom's toxicity, compared with samples from ...

Instead of building a new antivenom from scratch, a group of researchers turned to someone with a head start. Friede has spent 18 years injecting himself with increasingly lethal doses of snake venom ...