{"id":126258,"date":"2021-08-15T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/israeli-researchers-say-llama-nanobodies-could-help-stop-covid"},"modified":"2021-08-15T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:22:16","slug":"israeli-researchers-say-llama-nanobodies-could-help-stop-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/israeli-researchers-say-llama-nanobodies-could-help-stop-covid","title":{"rendered":"Israeli researchers say llama nanobodies could help stop COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-researchers-say-llama-nanobodies-could-help-stop-covid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I posted about the work in Texas, but here is more work.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli and American researchers have discovered a nanobody cocktail that could neutralize coronavirus, including the Delta mutation.<\/p>\n<p>Nanobodies are single domain antibodies derived from llamas \u2014 or other members of the camel family.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the cocktail and their effectiveness in combating coronavirus was published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can produce an innovative drug through the cocktail, it will be a life-saving treatment \u2014 if given early in the disease,\u201d according to Hebrew University School of Engineering and Computer Science Dr. Dina Schneidman-Duhovy, who helped lead the study with University of Pittsburgh researcher Dr. Yi Shi.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A team of Israeli and American researchers have found a combination of antibodies derived from llamas that may be effective in treating the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/israeli-researchers-say-llama-nanobodies-could-help-stop-covid\">Continue reading \u201cIsraeli researchers say llama nanobodies could help stop COVID\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I posted about the work in Texas, but here is more work. Israeli and American researchers have discovered a nanobody cocktail that could neutralize coronavirus, including the Delta mutation. Nanobodies are single domain antibodies derived from llamas \u2014 or other members of the camel family. The discovery of the cocktail and their effectiveness [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126258","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\/126258","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}