A team of EcoHealth Alliance researchers in China’s Guangdong province last year biopsied a bat’s wing to identify its species.
By Jon Cohen, Kai KupferschmidtScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.An international team of scientists whose funding for research on bat coronaviruses was recently yanked by the U.S.
government has published what it calls the most comprehensive analysis ever done of such viruses. In a preprint posted yesterday on bioRxiv, the researchers examine partial genetic sequences of 781 coronaviruses found in bats in China, more than one-third of which have never been published.While the analysis cannot pinpoint the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, it does single out one