Ever wonder how snakes not only swallow their prey whole, but metabolize all that hair and bone? Scientists studying the stomachs of Burmese pythons found some pretty amazing things. Researchers ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Pythons are known for their enormous appetites. In a single meal they can devour animals at least as big as they are — deer, alligators, pigs, household pets. Equally remarkable is ...

Scientists have unlocked the mystery of how Burmese pythons digest bones without leaving any trace in their droppings. The secret lies in specialized intestinal cells that collect excess calcium and ...

Exceptional and extreme feeding behaviour makes the Burmese python ( Python bivittatus) an interesting model to study physiological remodelling and metabolic adaptation in response to refeeding after ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — While most of us struggle with post-meal bloating, Burmese pythons take digestive expansion to another level. These snakes experience perhaps the most dramatic organ transformation ...

Write a program which, from a restriction enzyme, gives the result of the digestion of a sequence by this enzyme. That is, the program gives the number of fragments and their length. It will also be ...

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testdna.fas: An example of a well formatted fasta file that can be used in restriction_site.py enzyme_list: an example of a well formatted text file containing examples of restriction enzyme names and ...