The expanding hearts of pythons have intrigued researchers. Leslie Leinwand - a University of Colorado at Boulder molecular biologist who studies heart disease in humans called pythons ...

Large muscle mass doesn't equate to better performance. You can inject the mice with it to make their heart muscle increase in size, but it won't go through the conditioning the python does during ...

Grow an Olympic-sized heart with Burmese python plasma After pythons eat, their hearts nearly double in size.

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.

Python’s heart-restoring elixir works in mice Chemical brew used by snakes to build cardiac muscle could help humans ...

Helping the heart with a dose of python (no, not the programming language) Snakes fast for extended periods, after which they gorge on meals that should … ...

Adult Burmese pythons can swallow prey as large as deer. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder say the way the python's heart balloons after it eats could help treat human ...