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Jacob Glanville, the CEO of a biotech company called Centivax, had a mission: to develop a universal antivenom against ...
We were eating turkey sandwiches at his kitchen table one afternoon earlier this year when Hiaasen told me about Rocky I and ...
A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...
Bennett True set a goal last summer that others might find unthinkable: to give a live demonstration with highly venomous ...
Tim Friede has been bitten by hundreds of snakes. And now, scientists are studying his blood to create a universal antivenom.
Increasing access to anti-snake-venom is not enough to protect people, experts say. What is needed is an ecological approach.
A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.
For 18 years, American man Tim Friede has been being getting bitten by deadly snakes...willingly. And the reason why may ...
The researchers showed “super antibodies” from the man’s blood prevented toxic damage from neurotoxins found in the venoms of ...
Scientists have created a new antivenom that uses antibodies developed by a man who exposed himself to snake poison for years ...
Over nearly 18 years, an American, Tim Friede, 57, injected himself with carefully calibrated, escalating doses of venom to ...