Researchers have found a metabolite in Burmese pythons that suppresses appetite in mice without some of GLP-1's side effects. And humans make it, too. Reading time 3 minutes The media is rife with ...

Fat does a heart good—at least if you're a python, a new study says. High levels of fatty acids, or lipids, in the reptiles' blood nearly doubles the sizes of their hearts and other organs after ...

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 ...