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How alpacas could be the key to finding a COVID-19 cure – 3AW
Researchers have injected a group of alpacas in East Gippsland with tiny fragments of COVID-19 in a project that could lead to a treatment for the deadly virus. Alpacas, curiously, produce two type…

Researchers have injected a group of alpacas in East Gippsland with tiny fragments of COVID-19 in a project that could lead to a treatment for the deadly virus.
Alpacas, curiously, produce two types of antibodies, one similar to the one produced by humans and another smaller one which is known as a nanobody.
Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have immunised several Bairnsdale alpacas with COVID-19 nanobodies and, together with scientists from the Australian Synchotron, are st…
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