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| Tyson the alpaca a potential 'knockout blow' against coronavirus |
| 2020-06-07 |
| [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 |
| #3 The world scientific community is taking the responsibility to find treatments and cures for what was originally presented as the long-expected Spanish Flu event very seriously — I’m proud of them all, even if a few are temporarily sidetracked by Trump Derangement Syndrome. And the intensity of double checking that’s catching where teams have gone wrong is heartening as well. Lots of learnings that will be broadly applicable after this is over, I believe, to the benefit of all. When the real thing hits, we will be much better prepared to deal with it the world over. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-06-07 17:17 |
| #2 What's next? BBQ |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-06-07 11:19 |
| #1 A Møøse once bit my sister... |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-06-07 07:57 |