{"id":28634,"date":"2020-05-06T20:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28634"},"modified":"2020-05-06T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:42:59","slug":"our-savior-may-have-charm-and-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/05\/06\/our-savior-may-have-charm-and-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Savior May Have Charm And Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

From<\/a> WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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The global search for a\u00a0treatment<\/a>\u00a0targeting the novel coronavirus has led to an unlikely potential savior: a cocoa-colored llama named Winter, whose blood could hold a weapon to blunt the virus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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She lives at a research farm in Belgium with about 130 other llamas and alpacas. And like all of them, she produces a special class of disease-fighting antibodies \u2014 tiny, even by antibody standards \u2014 that show early promise in laboratory tests in blocking the novel\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0from entering and infecting cells.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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In a\u00a0paper published Tuesday<\/a> in the journal Cell, an international team of scientists reports that these petite antibodies, harvested from Winter\u2019s blood, were used to engineer a new antibody that binds to the spiky proteins that stud the surface of the novel coronavirus, \u201cneutralizing\u201d its insidious effect. The study, though preliminary, points to a possible treatment for covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, if the results hold up in animal and human studies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After watching the screaming protesters on TV, there’s something poetic at the thought of Winter, in all her llama-charm, saving us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From WaPo: The global search for a\u00a0treatment\u00a0targeting the novel coronavirus has led to an unlikely potential savior: a cocoa-colored llama named Winter, whose blood could hold a weapon to blunt the virus. She lives at a research farm in Belgium with about 130 other llamas and alpacas. And like all \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28635,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634\/revisions\/28635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}