Long-lived bats appear to share genetic defenses against viruses, cancer, and aging. Studying how these systems overlap may ...

Scientists found that vesper bats have two separate antibody heavy-chain gene systems, potentially revealing a new clue to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Discover how learning more about how bats harbor viruses and infections without becoming ill could help keep humans healthy, too. Bats are the only mammals that can fly (though some can glide). They ...

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 ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said Thursday. The man in his 50s was bitten by a bat carrying Australian bat ...

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 ...

Bats are the only mammals that can fly (though some can glide). They have excellent hearing, navigate by echolocation, and they can eat their body weight in insects in a single night. But bats' most ...