Vampire bats are remarkable creatures that survive exclusively on blood, a diet rich in proteins but low in fats and sugars.

An experimental portable device might be able to detect lung cancer from a person's exhaled breath, researchers report.

Even when using mock blood in combination with carbon dioxide in the air (a trigger that tells mosquitoes they’re feasting on a human) and heat, the mosquitoes weren’t fooled. However ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source ...

In a rare technique among mammals, the bats burn proteins from blood, rather than carbs or fat, to power their pursuits of ...

Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what’s going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ...

Draft decision on article 6 approved with no objections.   18:19 A press conference by the presidency that had ...

Canadian scientists built a custom treadmill to test whether wild vampire bat’s blood-only diet gave them enough energy to exercise Bats then ... process three times while scientists monitored how ...

Scientists put the bloodsucking mammals on a treadmill to understand how they get the energy to chase down their next meal.

Department of Physiology, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, United States ...

Elevated IL-10 in diabetes causes capillary obstruction, linked to cognitive deficits. Blocking IL-10 receptors shows promise for improving brain function.