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.

Indiana Jones’ greatest fear may be obesity’s biggest enemy. Scientists at three universities have turned to nature to find a ...

Biologists Leslie Leinwand of the University of Colorado Boulder and Jonathon Long of Stanford University have discovered a ...

Scientists have discovered a novel metabolite in pythons that quells appetite without causing gastrointestinal side effects ...

New research suggests python blood could hold the key to a new weight-loss drug, as the snake metabolite suppresses appetites ...

Python blood has a hormone that can mimic the effects of GLP-1. This can go a long way in coming up with a weight loss ...

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

Pythons don't nibble. They chomp, squeeze, and swallow their prey whole in a meal that can approach 100% of their body weight. But even as they slither stealthily around the forest, months or even a ...

Researchers discovered a compound in python blood, para-tyramine-O-sulfate (pTOS), that suppresses appetite and promotes ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have identified a molecule in Burmese python blood that suppresses appetite ...