a finding that could lead to new therapies for human heart disease. After a meal, python blood is so full of triglycerides, a form of cholesterol, that it appears milky, said study researcher ...

Now, researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder say the way the python's heart balloons after it eats could help treat human heart disease. Molecular biologist Leslie Leinwand discusses ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

a finding that could lead to new therapies for human heart disease. After a meal, python blood is so full of triglycerides, a form of cholesterol, that it appears milky, said study researcher ...