Most scientists today believe the COVID-19 pandemic began at a Chinese wet market, with the coronavirus in question likely originating from a bat. It wouldn’t be surprising, given that many viruses ...

Epidemic-causing viruses are linked to a small number of bat families, not bats as a whole, improving outbreak prevention ...

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 ...

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 ...

A photograph of a Jamaican Fruit Bat in flight. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 th ...

Bats, the winged mammals, are essential to ecosystem pollination, to give just one example, and control of insects, among others. And in addition to their utility to ecosystems, they are also the ...

To investigate the innate immune defenses against viruses at the mucosal surfaces of bats, the research team developed organoids from the respiratory and intestinal tissue of Egyptian fruit bats ...

More than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals. Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, including those ...

At 4:30 on a chilly morning in Australia, headlights burned through a dark forest in central Woodford, a small rural town 50 miles north of Brisbane, Queensland. Hundreds of flying foxes—magnificent ...

"Protecting these maternity roosts, or promoting them where they do not yet exist, is an important part of conservation." Now a recent study in the journal Science offers a glimmer of hope to bat-fans ...