Llama Blood

My mind is amazed by scientific stuff like this......

For more than 20 years, researchers have tried with limited success to engineer antibodies into new treatments for bacterial and viral infections. Now, a team of scientists has come up with a new approach: fastening together tiny antibodies from llama blood with a type of bacterial superglue. The interconnected antibodies protect mice from two dangerous viruses, and they could subdue other pathogens.

The new work has been able to “bypass a lot of the hurdles” that stymied previous attempts, says protein engineer Jennifer Maynard of the University of Texas, Austin. “I think this will be a very general technology that will be useful for infectious diseases and for cancer.”


Llama blood!


More on this research:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/biologists-invent-new-way-fight-viruses-llama-blood-and-molecular-super-glue

https://www.cnet.com/news/llama-antibodies-might-bring-us-closer-to-neutralizing-covid-19/


Yeesh, and we thought all llamas could do was spit and carry stuff over mountains!


Grace & Peace & Love to you all -

Matt

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