Pythons may help get grip on heart disease

Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

After pythons eat a meal, their organs — including their hearts — nearly double in size within a day. Now, researchers have learned how the snakes are able to achieve this sort of growth without heart damage, a finding that could lead to new therapies for human heart disease.

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