Robert Clarkのインスタグラム(robertclarkphoto) - 5月19日 23時25分

Happy to have some work in the NYTimes Magazine this weekend. nytimes Growing up in a farming area several hours from Kolkata, India, Amit Choudhary had always been afraid of #snakes. “I was told not to mess with those creatures,” he says. Now the @broadinstitute researcher realizes they might hold a cure for diabetes. The Burmese #python is essentially a slithering digestive tract: In the wild, it often spends up to a few months in silent ambush; then, when the moment is right, it wraps its coils around its prey and swallows it head first. A single meal for a full-grown python may contain more than 50,000 calories, a tidal wave of nutrients and fatty acids that could be deadly to another species. But the python has adapted to the overload. For the week or so that follows feeding, its intestine thickens; its liver and kidneys nearly double in mass; its insulin level shoots up; its temperature increases by 6 degrees Fahrenheit; its pulse triples; and its metabolism jumps. Then, once all the food has been absorbed, the python’s organs shrink back to their quiescent state. One day, the python may be as central to our understanding of disease — or at least those illnesses that stem, in part, from overeating — as the laboratory rodent. And eventually, in some respects, it might even overtake the mouse. Perhaps that would be fitting. @Robert Clark photographed this #Burmesepython while on assignment for @nytmag. Visit the link in our profile to read more about when the lab rat is a #snake. #?

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