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Tyson the alpaca a potential 'knockout blow' against coronavirus
[JPost] - Scientists in Sweden are hoping an alpaca named Tyson can help deliver a knockout blow in the fight to develop a treatment or vaccine against the novel coronavirus that has killed nearly 400,000 people worldwide.After immunizing Tyson, a 12-year-old alpaca in Germany, with virus proteins, the team at the Karolinska Institute have isolated tiny antibodies — known as nanobodies — from his blood that bind to the same part of the virus as human antibodies and could block the infection. They hope this can form the basis of a treatment for COVID-19 or eventually a vaccine against it, though the work is at an early stage. Swedes. First it was herd immunity, now it's alpacas. What's next? Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-06-07 |
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