A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.
Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter.
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A molecule produced in abundance by pythons after big meals could lead the way to new weight loss drugs, a University of Colorado study says.
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