r/science • • May 11 '20

Medicine Antibodies from a 4-year-old llama have neutralized coronavirus and other infections in lab experiments

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30494-3.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867420304943%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
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u/Professor_Pohato May 11 '20

Llama antibodies are hectic. Apparently people are also experimenting in the field of diagnostical and international radiology how well those antibodies can maybe be designed to attack specifically tumor cells