Her study on the python heart appeared in the journal Science ... about the amazing biology of these animals, I was immediately drawn to it. I have had such a curiosity about how they could ...

Still, these infrequent but humongous meals are actually normal for the python. A python's heart gets far larger and stronger after it gorges, and scientists are trying to understand how that ...

The process that allows the python's heart to expand is called hypertrophy. Instead of expanding the cells present in the heart, each of the heart's muscle cells grows in size, adding more of the ...

In people, high triglyceride levels are dangerous. But the python heart was burning fat so rapidly that it did not affect the arteries at all. A key enzyme that protects the heart from damage rose ...

Python blood may hold the road map to effective treatments for human heart disease, according to a new biomedical study by University of Colorado researchers. Researchers at CU’s Biofrontiers ...

It soon becomes apparent that something of note is inside the giant snake, but it's not immediately clear what has drawn ... a python's powerful squeeze could end blood flow to the heart within ...

When a Burmese python swallows a tasty rat dinner, the reptile makes new heart muscle to help digest the big meal, biologists have found. The predator has a special protein to expand its cardiac ...

Between meals, python hearts and many other organs shrivel again. Enlarging heart tissue can be a danger sign for humans. Yet the growth seen in the mice looks more like an athlete’s healthful ...

and its heart expands over 40%, presumably to pump greater volumes of blood throughout its body. "When a python eats, something extraordinary happens,” Leinwand says. “Its metabolism increases ...

(Read: Why a Giant Python Regurgitated a Lizard Half Its Size.) Scientists in California say the snakes experience a 40 percent increase in heart muscle mass within 48 hours of feeding. The change ...

Her study on the python heart appeared in the journal Science ... about the amazing biology of these animals, I was immediately drawn to it. I have had such a curiosity about how they could ...