Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter.

Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter. Its metabolism accelerates by a factor of thousands. Organs that had shrunk ...

Researchers find snake metabolite that suppresses appetite of obese mice ‘without some of side-effects’ of GLP-1 drugs Pythons follow the ultimate crash diet, swallowing an antelope in a single ...

Scientists have discovered a compound in python blood that reduces appetite and could lead to safer, more effective weight-loss drugs.