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

SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

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

Scientists trace how the virus behind COVID-19 traveled over 2,000 kilometers from bats in Western China to Wuhan.

Bats harbor viral human pathogens without getting sick. A new cell line could open doors to new therapies based on these ...

Max J. Kellner, Vanessa Monteil, Patrick Zelger, Gang Pei, Jie Jiao, Masahiro Onji, Komal Nayak, Matthias Zilbauer, Anne Balkema-Buschmann, Anca Dorhoi, Ali Mirazimi, Josef M. Penninger: Bat organoids ...

PORTAGE, Mich. — A bat found at Portage's Ramona Park has become Kalamazoo County's first rabid animal of 2025. Saturday, the ...

New genetic analyses reveal that the bat virus ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 likely circulated in Western China or ...

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

Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

The virus likely reached humans not via bat migration but through the wildlife trade—contradicting hypotheses that it may ...

A recent study from a team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic spread naturally from bats, suggesting it arrived in Wuhan ...