There, scientists found the source of infection was a SARS-like coronavirus from a Chinese rufous horseshoe bat, according to the thesis. Latham and Wilson believe the virus — once inside the ...

🔵 Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest updates Experts inserted a protein from a Chinese rufous horseshoe bat into a SARS virus from 2002, creating a coronavirus which could infect humans.

Researchers inserted a protein from a Chinese rufous horseshoe bat into a SARS virus from 2002 - resulting in a new pathogen which could infect human cells, Vanity Fair has revealed. But worried ...

In a remote cave in Yunnan province, virologists have identified a single population of horseshoe bats that harbours virus strains with all the genetic building blocks of the one that jumped to ...

Chinese researchers said Thursday they had ... they said – a viral sample called RpYN06 taken from a horseshoe bat species called Rhinolophus pusillus. It would be the closest strain to SARS ...

The international group of researchers, led by Chinese researcher Shi Zhengli, said the rufous horseshoe bat, a species widespread in China and southeast Asia, was responsible for the spread of ...

Zhou’s team mimicked infections in the white blood cells of mice and of Chinese rufous horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus sinicus): the species that harboured the SARS virus, which killed almost 600 ...

Experts inserted a protein from a Chinese rufous horseshoe bat into a SARS virus from 2002, creating a coronavirus which could infect humans. This "Frankenvirus" experiment - when scientists ...