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In early November, laboratories in South Africa's Gauteng began picking up something unusual while processing Covid-19 tests: they weren't able to detect the virus gene that creates the spike protein enabling the pathogen to enter human cells.
Vampire bats live on just blood, which is abundant in protein but low in other nutrients. According to The Scientist Magazine, a recent study suggests that "missing" genes may explain how vampire bats live on nothing but blood meals from the open wounds of their victims in the middle of the night.