UC-San Francisco: How Fruit Bats Got a Sweet Tooth Without Sour Health
January 10, 2024
January 10, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release:
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The DNA of fruit bats may create new fronts to fight the human diabetes epidemic.
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A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day.
Now, UC San Fra . . .
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The DNA of fruit bats may create new fronts to fight the human diabetes epidemic.
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A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day.
Now, UC San Fra . . .