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Fruit bats can eat up to twice their body weight in fruit a day. But their genes and cells evolved to process all that sugar without any health consequences − a feat drug developers can learn from.
The nocturnal animals eat around twice their body weight in fruit- high in fructose - every day, gorging for around four hours before sleeping for the rest of their day
Scientists from the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) are pivoting their diabetes research to study the humble fruit bat, in a move that holds promising implications for tackling the widespread disease.
Fruit bats could hold the answer to curing diabetes, scientists have revealed.
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