A new study shows that antibodies from llamas can neutralize the virus that causes COVID-19. It started in 2016 with a llama named Winter — who's now 'grazing peacefully on a farm in Belgium,' one researcher tells vprnet.
promise involves llamas. A new study shows that antibodies from llamas can neutralize the virus that causes COVID-19.
Daniel Wrapp: In the early 90s it was discovered that camelids, which is a group that includes llamas, alpacas, camels and a couple other animals, produced a specialized class of antibodies which are called nanobodies. The reason they're called that is because they're about half the size of the conventional antibodies that you and I would produce.
Winter is totally fine! Winter is grazing peacefully on a farm in Belgium. We just injected one small portion of the virus, a noninfectious portion of the virus, to elicit these antibodies, sort of prime the llama immune system against the coronaviruses. And then once we had done that, we were able to get the sequence of the antibodies which were raised in response to vaccination.
Here we would be directly administering an antibody. So it's more of a treatment than a prophylactic vaccination. That being said, vaccines aren't always super effective in the elderly. They have trouble raising an active immune response. And so we could prophylactically administer this antibody and then they would be protected for several months.
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