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Coronavirus: scientists identify genes that help bats fight off viruses – BBC Focus Magazine
Bats were found to have anti-viral genes and a loss of the genes involved in inflammation, which researchers say may relate to their tolerance of coronaviruses.
Genes that allow bats to fight off deadly diseases such as coronaviruses have been uncovered by a team of global scientists, according to a study.
Researchers generated and analysed six highly accurate bat genomes, which start to uncover bats ability as mammals to fly, navigate complete darkness using sound (known as echolocation) and survive fatal infections such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in humans.
A global scientists consortium that was set up to sequence the genomes of all li…
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