Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado at Boulder (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado at Boulder

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CU-Boulder professor Leslie Leinwand and her team have discovered that huge amounts of fatty acids circulating through the bloodstreams of feeding pythons promote healthy heart growth in the constricting snake, a study with implications for human heart heath.

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