Grow an Olympic sized Heart with Burmese python plasma

[ER12]

Now, a new study shows that this heart-ballooning in snakes is triggered by fatty acid molecules circulating in their bloodstream after they gorge.

The new findings could help researchers develop drugs to treat our own hearts – by boosting performance after a heart attack or stroke or, on the other hand, reducing dangerous kinds of heart growth caused by certain diseases.


http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/reth...on-plasma/7243

[Bellabob]

Yet another way snakes help us.

Now maybe people will stop saying "snakes are useless".