News tagged with vampire bats
Heat-detecting molecules steer vampires to blood
Scientists have known for years that when vampire bats tear through an animal's skin with their razor-sharp teeth, their noses guide them to the best spots – where a precise bite will strike a vein and ...
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Bizarre walking bat has ancient heritage
A bizarre New Zealand bat that is as much at home walking four-legged on the ground as winging through the air had an Australian ancestor 20 million years ago with the same rare ability, a new study has found.
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Clinical Trial Uses Bat Saliva Enzyme for Stroke Treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vampires aren't usually cast in the role of saviors, but stroke experts are hoping a blood thinner that mimics a chemical in vampire saliva will help save brain cells in stroke patients.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 30, 2008 |
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Vampire-inspired blood thinner begins new round of trials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for Halloween, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health physicians have begun testing an experimental blood thinner that mimics a chemical in vampire-bat saliva.
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Oct 29, 2010 |
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Researchers to study anthropogenic drivers of rabies in vampire bats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Throughout Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina, Common vampire bats transmit infectious diseases such as rabies to animals and humans. Factors that influence the spread of disease within bat populations ...
Sep 21, 2010 |
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