Antibodies from LLAMAS 'can neutralise the coronavirus and could be developed as a treatment'
Llamas create a type of antibody which is much smaller than those in humansTwo nanobodies from a llama called Fifi at the University of Reading were takenScientists found they successfully stop the virus from binding to the receptor ACE2 on the surface of human cells.
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