Now, researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder say the way the python's heart balloons ... or an observation she made in pythons about how their heart grows after a large meal.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now this is different: Researchers in Colorado are studying python hearts to see if they can come up with a new kind of treatment for humans with heart disease ... for jokes he made about fat ...

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 ...