Discover how learning more about how bats harbor viruses and infections without becoming ill could help keep humans healthy, ...

Data collected on juvenile and adult fringe-lipped bats provide the first insights into how eavesdropping behavior develops ...

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

hundreds of miles from the bat populations that were their original source," said co-senior author Michael Worobey, Ph.D., professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at ...

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 ...

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When that didn’t work out, she applied for a position studying bat evolution. Teeling has never looked back. “Within a month of deeply studying the biology of bats, I was completely hooked,” she ...

First one, then a few more, then hundreds of the creatures lifted off as the sun set until, she said, there was “a river of bats in the sky.” The next night Swartz, now a professor of biology ...

What do bats, naked mole rats and Jaws have in common? Probably not a lot, but at least the first two may be able to teach us something about human biology. That’s the hope of a new biotech ...

as well as a tattoo of small bats flying up the nape of her neck. Marin is a biology PhD student at York University in Toronto, and she’s here with the “Bat-a-thon,” a group of 80-some bat ...