Scientists create the world’s largest bat organoid platform—offering new tools to study viruses and boost pandemic ...

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the ...

Researchers were able to test how viruses replicate differently across various bat species and organs using the new organoid ...

Until now, most research has used either generalized cell samples or organoids made from just one type of tropical fruit bat, and only from a single organ. But a breakthrough has arrived: a research ...

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the Marburg and Nipah viruses. In contrast to the severe and often fatal disease ...

This bat loves to eat figs, and three species of figs have their seeds spread ... The masked palm civet lives in trees and eats mainly fruit, and can sometimes be found in urban areas close ...

“In Rwanda, one of the [bat] species of concern, although not threatened according to the IUCN Red List, is the Egyptian fruit bat [Rousettus aegyptiacus] because it has been identified by ...

is in the midst of a 5-year study to identify bat species and migratory patterns. "This is an SM-4. They call it a song meter," Master Naturalist Tina Olivas said, pointing to a box mounted on a ...

The Zoo looks after two endangered species of fruit bat, with eight Livingstone's and two Rodrigues dying from the infection. There are only approximately 100 Livingstone's fruit bats in captivity ...

However, the frog-eating fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) uses sound instead of looking out for bright colors. The species is known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to locate its ...