Antibodies from LLAMAS can neutralise the coronavirus

Antibodies taken from the blood of llamas and engineered to target SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, could offer a future treatment against the disease.  Llamas, as well as camels and alpacas, naturally produce very small antibodies, called nanobodies, which are dwarfed by those made by human immune systems.  Lab-based experiments found these naturally-occurring antibodies … Read more