Thanks to a biotech company in South Dakota, they could well be on their way to finding a cure for the coronavirus by using cows.
The company is using cows to make human antibodies so they can fight off SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Clinical trials with the antibodies are going to start this Summer.
So in other words, the company genetically alters cattle so that some of their immune cells carry the DNA that lets people create antibodies. With that change, the cows can make a lot of human antibodies.
The biotech company says that cows are a perfect fit for something like this because they have a lot of blood and their blood can actually contain twice as many antibodies as a human’s blood.
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