Researchers have identified an appetite-suppressing metabolite in snakes that could inform a new weight loss drug.
Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter.
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 ...