{"id":109889,"date":"2020-07-13T18:57:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/coronavirus-llamas-provide-key-to-immune-therapy"},"modified":"2020-07-13T18:57:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:57:51","slug":"coronavirus-llamas-provide-key-to-immune-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/coronavirus-llamas-provide-key-to-immune-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Llamas provide key to immune therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coronavirus-llamas-provide-key-to-immune-therapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Fifi the llama munches on grass on a pasture in Reading, her immune system has provided the template for a coronavirus treatment breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.ac.uk\/\" class=\"\">UK\u2019s Rosalind Franklin Institute<\/a> have used Fifi\u2019s specially evolved antibodies to make an immune-boosting therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting llama-based, Covid-specific \u201cantibody cocktail\u201d could enter clinical trials within months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Fifi the llama munches on grass on a pasture in Reading, her immune system has provided the template for a coronavirus treatment breakthrough. Scientists from the UK\u2019s Rosalind Franklin Institute have used Fifi\u2019s specially evolved antibodies to make an immune-boosting therapy. The resulting llama-based, Covid-specific \u201cantibody cocktail\u201d could enter clinical trials within months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}