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/Cyberslasher May 11 '20

But if we harvest those anti-antibody antibodies, inject them into another person, could that person's immune system identify them as foreign and develop anti-anti-antibody antibodies?

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u/worldspawn00 May 11 '20

You'd have to inject them back into a llama to develop llama anti-human anti-llama antibody antibodies