Tara Hofoff, a biologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey, talks about the role of bats in our ecosystem, and, did bats contribute to the current coronavirus pandemic?
Tony Schountz joins TWiV to explain the work of his laboratory showing that deer mice can be infected with and transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how his colony of Jamaican fruit bats is being used to understand their response to virus infections.…
How does a virus that may have originated in bats jump to humans? How do we model the spread of infection? And how do racial inequities in health and healthcare affect how a pandemic unfolds? In this online discussion, Museum…
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK — Bats can be carriers of the coronavirus but they are themselves highly resistant to the disease. This quality could be linked to the longevity of bats, University of Rochester researchers say in a recent study in…
This is my Breakthrough Junior Challenge 2020 entry video. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did when developing it. I hope that through this video I made you know more than you did yesterday! I really did!…
Till now, there is still no clear source of COVID-19 infection cause from coronavirus SARS-COV-2 but experts think it most likely did originate from bats. Because of this, all across the world, we are seeing cases where Bats are being…
