How bats evolved to avoid cancer

[Grim Reaper 6]

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press and entitled “Long-read sequencing reveals rapid evolution of immunity- and cancer-related genes in bats,” showed that rapid evolution in bats may account for the animals’ extraordinary ability to both host and survive infections as well as avoid cancer. Unfortunately, bats are also thought to have played a role in the emergence of COVID-19. The ability of bats to tolerate viral infections may stem from unusual features of their innate immune response.

For example, by better understanding the mechanisms of the bat immune system that allow bats to tolerate viral infections, researchers may be better able to prevent disease outbreaks from animals to people.

https://www.jpost.com/science/article-760434

[+and-then]

Using bats as research reservoirs should be strictly monitored at the international level and such work should be done EXCLUSIVELY in BSL level 4 labs.  The data should never be kept hidden from the international community.  Neither the US nor any other country should be able to covertly fund labs outside their own borders to accomplish potentially dangerous research that they'd be legally prohibited to do on their own soil.  

[joseraul]

10 minutes ago, and-then said:

Using bats as research reservoirs should be strictly monitored at the international level and such work should be done EXCLUSIVELY in BSL level 4 labs.  The data should never be kept hidden from the international community.  Neither the US nor any other country should be able to covertly fund labs outside their own borders to accomplish potentially dangerous research that they'd be legally prohibited to do on their own soil.  

 

I think independent research can be good.. people working with the bats in their garage!

[SHaYap]

14 minutes ago, joseraul said:

 

I think independent research can be good.. people working with the bats in their garage!

Word! 

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[Alchopwn]

We are still learning better ways to live from animals.  Its a strange form of totemism...

[Grim Reaper 6]

36 minutes ago, Alchopwn said:

We are still learning better ways to live from animals.  Its a strange form of totemism...

Breakthroughs, like this are how our medical community will eventually defeat diseases like cancer. I think the next 20 years will provide advancements in our understanding and knowledge that would be amazing now, hope I am around to see some of them.