He let snakes bite him hundreds of times. Now his blood might save lives
Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites.
#science #medicine #snakes #Health #Snake #Venom
https://globalnews.ca/news/11164165/snakes-bitten-man-hundreds-times-his-blood-could-treatment/
He let snakes bite him hundreds of times. Now his blood might save lives
Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites.
#science #medicine #snakes #Health #Snake #Venom
https://globalnews.ca/news/11164165/snakes-bitten-man-hundreds-times-his-blood-could-treatment/
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How one person can catalyse a leap forward in #science.
Big up, Tim Friede!
#snakes #antivenom
Antivenom neutralizes neurotoxins of 19 of world's deadliest snakes
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250502133806.htm
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00402-7
* antibodies isolated f. hyperimmune individual self-exposed to wide variety of venoms
* result: potent, broadly cross-neutralizing antibodies against homologous snake toxins
* used to make broadly effective antivenom
* protective against black mamba, king cobra, tiger snakes in mouse trials
* path toward universal antiserum
I'm really happy to see uncharismatic wildlife like snakes around us, it's nice evidence that they're living undisturbed enough lives to grow nice n big. #snakes
Posting tiny snakes because I really am so happy to have found them - was raking leaves at a community food distribution center and helped these little guys too. #herping #snakes #dangernoodles #lilguys 
"Not only was the snake viewed as a messenger between humans and Nature, but serpents were specifically associated with meteorology: rain, lightning, storms, droughts, and the crucial connection of weather to agricultural fertility and hence survival. Implicit in this association was an acknowledgement that Nature could be unpredictable, sometimes benevolent, sometimes malign, often unknowable. In an age (ours) that venerates predictability and certainty, the ancient veneration of snakes offers a surprising cautionary message: As we face the uncertainties of climate change and meteorological volatility, respect for serpents writ large might remain a way of acknowledging all the things we ingenious humans still can’t control." https://nautil.us/snakes-break-all-the-rules-1206380/ #snakes
