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Llamas have small antibodies that can sneak into spaces on viral proteins that are too tiny for human antibodies, helping them to fend off the threat. Scientists hope that the llama antibodies could help protect humans who have not been infected.
The research is a collaborative effort from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), the National Institutes of Health and Ghent University in Belgium.
Xavier Saelens, Flemish Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) said, “What we have discovered is an antibody that happens to come from llamas, and that antibody can bind to the Covid-19 virus and also prevent it from infecting a cell”
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