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.

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 weight-loss drugs.

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

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

PYTHON blood could hold the key to the next blockbuster weight loss treatment, scientists say. The reptiles can go months without eating after consuming a massive meal, while still remaining ...

Biologists Leslie Leinwand of the University of Colorado Boulder and Jonathon Long of Stanford University have discovered a compound in python blood that can suppress appetite.

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous ...

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 treatment that does not come with side effects. Here's what researchers have to ...