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Scientists discover blood from llamas could hold key to coronavirus vaccine

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The coronavirus pandemic broke out after crossing from animals to humans, and now scientists believe that a possible vaccine could soon be found in the animal kingdom too.

Researchers from the Vlaams Institute for Biotechnology in Ghent have found antibodies in llama blood which they think could help to neutralise the virus.

Similar antibodies derived from llama blood have have proved effective in the past against MERS and SARS – close relatives of the Covid-19 virus.

The original research that led to the discovery was part of a search for HIV. The antibodies found in llamas are much smaller than human antibodies, which raises the possibility of developing what virologists call nanobody technology – the use of tiny molecules to deliver

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