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Biologists Leslie Leinwand of the University of Colorado Boulder and Jonathon Long of Stanford University have discovered a compound in python blood that can suppress appetite. This compound helps ...

Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter. Its metabolism accelerates by a factor of thousands. Organs that had shrunk ...