Results of a five-year study in 20 countries on three continents have found that bats harbor a large diversity of coronaviruses (CoV), the family of viruses that cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS) ...
Jun 12, 2017
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It was a December day like any other in the village of Meliandou: a remote outcrop in the densely forested region of southern Guinea. A young boy named Emile Ouamouno was playing by a tree filled with fruit bats.
Nov 11, 2016
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What happens when a plastic surgeon meets a bat expert zoologist and a paleobiologist? No, it's not a strange Halloween story about spooky bat dinosaurs but rather, a story about a new discovery about bats which may unlock ...
Oct 25, 2016
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There was a certain kind of quiet hopefulness when, in late April this year, the last Ebola patient of the West African epidemic – a two-year-old boy – walked out of a treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia. With the ...
Sep 27, 2016
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As the deadly outbreak of Ebola has subsided, people in several West African countries are flocking to eat bush meat again after restrictions were lifted on the consumption of wild animals like hedgehogs and cane rats. But ...
Sep 21, 2016
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Potential outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever may be more accurately predicted thanks to a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge. This could in turn help inform public ...
Sep 2, 2016
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A new study from Macquarie University has found that a certain type of parasite which infects people in greater numbers during summer, causing symptoms such as diarrhoea and abdominal pain, could also be spread by bats.
Aug 10, 2016
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An international team of ecologists has identified the bat species with the greatest potential to harbor filoviruses—a family that includes Ebola virus. Writing in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, they suggest that areas ...
Jul 14, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers from a variety of institutions in China has found via experimentation, that transplanting brown adipose tissue (BAT) into female rats with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) led to a ...
You're at a crowded party, noisy with multiple conversations, music and clinking glasses. But when someone behind you says your name, you hear it and quickly turn in that direction.
Feb 23, 2016
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