Chester Zoo's python Jodie Foster is cancer-free after becoming the first snake treated with electrochemotherapy, a technique adapted from human oncology.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There have been multiple documented incidents where large ...

The reticulated python is not merely enormous. According to the video, it is the only snake species with confirmed ...

All animals possess some capacity for repairing and replacing the lining of their intestines, a process called intestinal regeneration. In mammals, including humans, this constant but relatively minor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 15ft python named Jodie Foster is believed to be the first snake in the world to receive a pioneering cancer treatment usually ...

(CNN) — A 15-foot python has made an impressive recovery after becoming what is believed to be the first snake in the world to receive a pioneering cancer treatment usually used in humans. The ...

The 23-year-old reticulated python was named after Oscar winner Jodie Foster when she arrived at the Cheshire zoo two decades ago. | ITV News Granada ...

Many of my previous articles for RAPS have featured a host of disparate animals that are or could be used in medicine or in medical research, including leeches, maggots, rats, spiders, whipworms, Gila ...

Jodie Foster, a 23-year-old python, became the first snake to receive electrochemotherapy, previously a cancer treatment only ...