It was under animal exchange programme that Van Vihar National Park authorities had brought two male king cobra snakes from ...

Jacob Glanville, the CEO of a biotech company called Centivax, had a mission: to develop a universal antivenom against ...

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...

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

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is ...

What happens when a spitting cobra faces off with a human? In this intense encounter, we break down how the cobra defends ...

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

Friede's passion nearly cost him his life in 2001, when he let 2 cobras bite him and ended up in a coma for four days.

Experts have long called for better ways to treat snakebites, which kill some 200 people a day, mainly in the developing ...

Tim Friede might be the world's most snakebit person—and his antibodies could hold the key to a truly universal snake ...

The research, published in Cell, describes how two of Friede’s antibodies were combined with varespladib, a drug known to block venom enzymes that harm nerves and muscles. The resulting treatment ...

Bennett True set a goal last summer that others might find unthinkable: to give a live demonstration with highly venomous ...