Decades ago, Stephen Mackessy was bitten by a snake.

He was only 13 years old, living in southern California. He admits, he mishandled the animal. But he survived to tell the tale.

That experience didn’t seem to scare him away.

A few years later, a high school job put Mackessy with snakes again.

Mackessy went on to study biology in college and built his career around researching snakes and their venom. Today, he is a professor at the University of Northern Colorado. And his current research includes studying how venom varies between different snakes and different geographical locations, and how the venom can be beneficial to humans fighting deadly diseases, like cancer.

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