Study sheds light on bat immunity mystery

A new study sheds light on one of nature’s biggest immune mysteries.

It’s a question that has puzzled scientists for years. How can the world’s only winged mammals carry viruses that cause severe disease while rarely becoming seriously ill themselves?

Now researchers at Tulane University, with collaborators at Stanford University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may have found a reason.

In a study in Science Advances<...