Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) has been leading Israeli efforts to develop a treatment and vaccine for the coronavirus Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory, the Israeli defence minister said, calling the step a "significant breakthrough" toward a possible treatment for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The "monoclonal neutralising antibody" developed at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) "can neutralise it (the disease-causing coronavirus) inside carriers' bodies," Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement.
The statement added that Bennett visited the IIBR on Monday where he was briefed "on a significant breakthrough in finding an antidote for the