Researchers explain how bats are surviving and thriving on nothing but sugar, offering hope for better understanding diabetes (VIDEO)

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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The new study reports the highest naturally occurring blood sugar concentrations in mammals ever observed, a finding that suggests bats have evolved strategies to survive, and even thrive, with this extreme trait.

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