More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan ...

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Mont., are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* server, researchers examined the vulnerability of Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis). Credit: Karin Schneeberger alias Felineora; Wikimedia Commons. This file is ...

Fruit bats hanging on tree branches in daylight in Bangladesh on November 6, 2023. ... One of the Jamaican fruit bats that they captured at the Bat-a-Thon was used to study sugar metabolism.

Bats may hold the key to curing cancer, according to a new peer-reviewed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory study. Despite their long lifespans, bats rarely get cancer and some species contain over 50 ...

Gordon and Ahituv traveled to Belize to participate in an annual Bat-a-Thon with nearly 50 other bat researchers, taking a census of wild bats as well as field samples for science. One of the Jamaican ...

In bats, the telomerase expression allows bat cells to multiply endlessly. That means they don’t undergo replicative senescence: a feature that restricts cell proliferation to a certain number ...

We found Jamaican fruit bats have more insulin-producing and glucagon-producing cells than big brown bats, along with regulatory DNA that primes fruit bat pancreatic cells to initiate production of ...

The Jamaican fruit bats kept at MSU will help researchers learn more about the effects of nutritional stress on their viral load. Vincent Munster, ...

WASHINGTON — More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic ...