A team of U.S.researchers at Columbia University manage to take over a thousand of biological samples of the major flying mammals in the world while studying flying foxes in the jungle of Bangladesh. When laboratory analysis chain reaction using the polymer the scientists were able to identify 58 new viruses.
Finely, this number was extrapolated to 5,486 known mammals, reaching a total of at least 320,000 viruses, say the study materials published on the site of the university. Read the rest of this entry »