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Novel inhalable llama antibodies may help treat, prevent COVID-19: Study – The New Indian Express
They are many times more effective at neutralising the SARS-CoV-2 virus, that causes COVID-19, and are also much more stable, they said.
WASHINGTON: Scientists have found a new method to extract tiny but extremely powerful novel coronavirus antibody fragments from llamas, which they say could be fashioned into inhalable therapeutics with the potential to prevent and treat COVID-19.
These special llama antibodies, called nanobodies, are much smaller than human antibodies, according to the researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the US.
They are many times more effective at neutralising the SARS-CoV-2 virus,…
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