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. Its metabolism accelerates by a factor of thousands. Organs that had shrunk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of Colorado and Stanford Medicine found a specific substance in Burmese and ball python blood called ...