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