Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals’ actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why.

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why. They say gorging ...

When pandas eat their bamboo diet, they absorb small pieces of genetic material from the bamboo into their bodies, just like we do with the plants we eat. RNA is a single-stranded molecule made of ...

However, because bamboo has little protein, pandas can eat up to 12 hours a day, consuming roughly 26 to 84 pounds of the plant ... These test results are a key step in helping researchers understand ...

The researchers believe that as pandas eat more bamboo as they grow ... The fact that miRNA could transmit signals from plants to animals may open doors for studying the treatment and prevention ...