A key enzyme that protects the heart from damage rose in python blood right after it ate, while a heart-damaging compound was repressed.

A python's heart gets far larger and stronger after it gorges, and scientists are trying to understand how that happens, and whether it can help humans with heart diseases.

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

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 … ...

Main Hearty meal: the python's cardiac ventricles grow after feeding. The heart is remarkable for its ability to remodel itself in response to altered functional demands.

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