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

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.

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

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

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

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

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

On a fall day in Gainesville, Georgia, Justin Kobylka, the forty-two-year-old owner of Kinova Reptiles, was preparing to cut open two clutches of snake eggs. He was hoping to hit upon some valuable, ...

That experience proved invaluable on a Chronicle assignment involving a missing juvenile ball python at a local EaDo nightclub. Assistant general manager Javi Ramirez discovered the snake weeks later, ...