She asked a pretty simple question, which was if there was something circulating in the python blood that might be able to make heart cells from a mammal, a rat, in culture get bigger, which would ...

In order to digest these infrequent feasts, the snake’s heart ... snakes use to remodel their hearts could help develop medicines to treat cardiovascular diseases in humans, like by making ...

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 ...

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 ...

She asked a pretty simple question, which was if there was something circulating in the python blood that might be able to make heart cells from a mammal, a rat, in culture get bigger, which would ...