Nanobodies Providing Protection Against the Coronavirus

A recent study, now available on the preprint server bioRxiv from a team of researchers at the University of California San Francisco, features an innovative approach to stopping the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic. The team has developed a synthetic aerosol nasal spray – which they termed “AeroNabs” – that works 

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Using Pigs to Evaluate Flu Antibody Therapies

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute, working closely with Inovio Pharmaceuticals, have proven that pigs can be used to determine whether influenza antibody therapies are effective. The team’s new research, recently published in the Journal of Immunology, found that a human antibody (2-12C) can neutralize the H1N1 2009 flu pandemic virus in pigs, which provides protection against 

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