Skip Maas (Right), graduate student in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Leslie Leinwand, Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, ...

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.

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain ...

Skip Maas, a PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, holds his personal pet snakes, Gaius and Agrippina. In the lab, Maas studies python metabolism to better ...

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 ...

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

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

A single vertebra pulled from ancient sediments in southwest Taiwan has upended what scientists thought they knew about the island’s prehistoric ecosystem. The bone belongs to a giant python that ...

New Opentrons AI capability lets scientists simulate and visually inspect automated laboratory experiments before robots ...

Fossil reveals that a giant python over 4 meters long once lived in Taiwan. The discovery rewrites the island's natural history.

Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. Unlike traditional methods that rely on ...