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Synthetic antibody may prevent coronavirus from infecting human cells – News-Medical.Net
By screening hundreds of synthetic antibodies, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and EMBL Hamburg in Germany have identified an antibody that may prevent…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 4 2020
By screening hundreds of synthetic antibodies, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and EMBL Hamburg in Germany have identified an antibody that may prevent the new coronavirus from infecting human cells.
The study, which is published in the journal Nature Communications, also shows how antibodies can be quickly produced in the event of future pandemics.
On the surface of SARS-CoV-2 are spike proteins that give coronaviruses their characteristic…
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