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A new research study reveals how fruit bats' unique physiology enables a healthy high-sugar diet, offering insights for human diabetes research. A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity, and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice th
<p>A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day. </p>
Recent research reveals bats' rapid evolution could be the reason for their unique resistance to infections and cancer. By sequencing bat genomes and comparing them with other mammals, significant genetic adaptations linked to disease resistance were discovered. Rapid Evolution in Bats: Key to Dise
Scientists from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have discovered that bats' unique genes give them a robust immune system, protecting them from harmful viruses and reducing their cancer susceptibility. Their findings could offer insights into human immunity and potential treatments. Bats have ac
52-million-year-old fossils support idea that bats diversified rapidly on multiple continents during the Eocene. Scientists have discovered a new bat species, Icaronycteris gunnelli, based on the oldest bat skeletons ever found in Wyoming's Green River Formation. The study supports the idea that
A newly described image of a bat skeleton Icaronycteris Gunnelli. Found in the Green River Formation in Wyoming, this skeleton is the oldest skeleton ever