How bats tolerate viruses: Tulane study sheds light on one of nature’s biggest immune mysteries (IMAGE)

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How bats tolerate viruses: Tulane study sheds light on one of nature’s biggest immune mysteries

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Hannah Frank, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, holds a small bat similar to the vesper species at the center of a study she led. The research uncovered a previously unknown antibody system that could offer new clues about how bats coexist with viruses without becoming seriously ill.

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Kenny Lass/Tulane University

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