Bats have evolved with unique features such as laryngeal echolocation and flight, with some capable of tolerating viruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses (SARS-CoVs), Middle ...

Researchers are hoping that by solving the mystery of why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus — pathogens that are highly dangerous to humans — without becoming ill themselves, ...

Bats inhabit diverse ecological niches, accounting for one-fifth of all living mammalian species. They feed on fruits, nectar, arthropods, leaves, fish, small vertebrates, and blood. Its unique ...

Bats, the only flying mammals, have long fascinated scientists for their unique characteristics. 1 One of these is their ability to harbor viruses like Nipah, Ebola, and coronaviruses—which cause ...

The animals' immune systems evolved to tamp down inflammation. This is an Inside Science story. Bats can harbor many viruses that are potentially deadly to humans, including those behind SARS, Ebola ...

Researchers have generated the first induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from bats, gaining valuable insights into the close relationship between bats and viruses. Researchers from the Icahn School ...

Randy Foo fills a pipette with orange juice from a bottle clearly labelled ‘For Bats ONLY’. He and his colleague Rommel Yroy are seated at a biological safety cabinet, wrapped in blue gowns and ...

Bats are also infamous as carriers of deadly pathogens, a reputation which even bat enthusiasts admit is not entirely undeserved. “Bats are reservoirs for viruses that cause the highest case fatality ...

A team of researchers led by Anca Dorhoi at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) and Emmanuel Saliba at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), has elucidated age-dependent ...

In the forests of upstate New York, little brown bats hang upside down in caves, sometimes for decades. One of them was once found to be more than 30 years old. That’s the bat equivalent of 180 human ...