Researchers found that vesper bats use two separate sets of genes to build antibodies ‪—‬ a rare evolutionary quirk that may give them different ways to fight infection.

New research by the University of Sydney offers important insights into how and when new coronavirus variants arise in bats. It found young bats are infected more frequently and could be a key source ...

White patches of fungus can be seen on this northern long-eared bat affected by white-nose syndrome in Illinois. (Photo by J.R. Hoyt) UC Santa Cruz graduate student Joseph Hoyt releases a little brown ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers characterized the mammal-infecting viruses in 149 bats, representing six genera and 15 species, sampled from Yunnan province, ...

A treatment for white-nose syndrome could be on the horizon thanks to bacteria and fungi on bats’ own wings. Researchers at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) have sampled the wing microbiome of ...

Understanding how bats tolerate viral infections without developing symptoms may lead to better ways of combating human disease. Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and colleagues in Singapore have ...

In a world first, scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and colleagues in Singapore have sequenced the response to viral infection in colony-bred cave nectar bats (Eonycteris spelaea) at single-cell ...