Researchers hunt for antibodies in blood of recovered Covid-19 patients, hoping to develop monoclonal antibody treatments that could become a bridge to a vaccine
SINGAPORE—Scientist Conrad Chan spent months hunched over trays of test tubes containing coronavirus antibodies, looking for needles in a haystack. By mid-June, he’d found them: five of the antibodies he believed would be best-suited to neutralize the pathogen that causes Covid-19.
His is one of a few dozen studies under way in the global push to develop monoclonal antibody therapies—drugs known as “mAbs” that can both prevent and fight infection. They are made by screening hundreds of thousands of antibodies found in the...
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