Peter Durcan News Today

We speak to some of the South African start-ups that visited Dogpatch Labs in Ireland last week after winning the Irish Tech Challenge.

Irish scientist optimistic alpaca can be ally in in fight against Covid-19 Researcher based in South Africa finds animal’s antibodies show signs of neutralising variants Mon, May 3, 2021, 01:00 Bill Corcoran Cape Town Listen now 4:44 Two alpacas: “We believe our alpaca antibodies would be best administered using an inhaler as they are 10 times smaller than human antibodies,” says Dr...

Alpaca nanobodies effective against South African SARS-CoV-2 variant Researchers in South Africa and the UK have identified alpaca-derived nanoantibodies that potently neutralize variants of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Notably, one of the nanoantibodies neutralized the South African variant of concern B.1.351 that has been shown to reduce the effectiveness of vaccines against the virus. “...