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.

By studying how snakes process large meals and long food breaks, scientists identified an overlooked compound in humans that ...

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.

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