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Researchers have identified an appetite-suppressing metabolite in snakes that could inform a new weight loss drug.

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A new study explores how the extreme biology of pythons may point to an unexpected path for obesity research. Pythons don’t nibble. They chomp, squeeze, and swallow their prey whole in a meal that can ...

Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter.

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

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