Though not as common as small rodents in laboratory settings, bats are being increasingly used in research studies. Knowledge of proper blood sampling techniques is essential for care and ...

It also doesn't help that three species feast on blood. Despite their diet, bats are incredibly important to their ecosystems. Some species pollinate plants and eat vast numbers of insects, helping to ...

Many questions received by the Museum concern the vampire bat. Because the true vampire bat of Central and South America feeds on blood, a popular misconception has been to link it to the human ...

Could bat blood be the key to humans being able to achieve ... the idea of long-term space travel has never been a real possibility for humans. But, if we were able to hibernate, it would be ...

When a vampire bat bites its victim, it secretes DSPA. This destroys fibrin, which helps blood clot. During the mid-1980s, it emerged that the vampire bat enzyme was genetically related to tissue ...

The genome of D. rotundus also possesses fewer endogenous retroviral elements, perhaps due to an expansion of antiretroviral genes, compared to bat species that don’t live off blood. “It is clear that ...

The children who perished from the illness also had bled from the nose and vomited blood. The link to a bat may be significant, because viruses in bats are known to cause a number of other ...