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Coronavirus could be beaten by cell therapy created by Dolly the Sheep scientists

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A treatment for the deadly Covid-19 infection using immune cells from young and healthy volunteers could be available to the NHS within weeks, it is reported.

The scientists responsible for cloning Dolly the Sheep in 1996 are understood to be in talks with the Government with a view to using the new therapy.

It has already used the immunity-building cell transfusions to successfully treat cancer. Now the scientists believe it will also work against the coronavirus. "One of the key challenges of fighting viral infection is to develop something that is going to attack the infected cells and not the normal cells," Dr Brian Kelly, senior strategic medical adviser in the study, told The Telegraph. "So the solution that we came up with was to

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