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

A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

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.

Researchers find snake metabolite that suppresses appetite of obese mice ‘without some of side-effects’ of GLP-1 drugs ...

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 ...