THE boffins responsible for cloning Dolly the Sheep are reportedly in talks with the Government on a potential treatment for Covid-19 using immune cells from young and healthy volunteers. Researche…
"In patients who have successfully fought a viral infection, they have expanded their own immune system and that persists after that to stop them becoming infected again."
The donor T-cells differ from normal immune cells as they do not identify invaders in the body based on alien protrusions on the surface of cells, but by detecting the unusual metabolism of viruses.
When the donor cells do detect a virus, they begin to destroy while also signalling it to the rest of the immune system as an alien intrusion requiring eradication. Dr Kelly said with this approach, even if the virus mutated and returned to a body, the infusion exercise could be repeated and would still work.
TC Biopharm was founded by Angela Scott, who was part of the team who cloned Dolly the Sheep in Edinburgh in 1996.Credit: PA:Press AssociationProfessor Michael Wakelam, Director of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, died from the coronavirus at the end of MarchWe pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at
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