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Monoclonal Antibody Cocktail Effective Against Brazilian, UK Variants Of Coronavirus, Finds Study
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A monoclonal antibody cocktail developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre (VUMC) in the US to neutralise the Covid-19 virus is effective against all known strains, or variants, of the virus, including those detected in the UK and Brazil, said a new study.
Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory-produced molecules engineered to serve as substitute antibodies, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The utility of monoclonal antibodies came into focus amid the pandemic after former US President Donald Trump was given such a treatment following his diagnosis with Covid-19.
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A monoclonal antibody cocktail developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to neutralize the COVID-19 virus is effective against all known strains, or variants, of the virus, according to a report published in the journal
Nature Medicine.
That was one of the findings reported by a multi-institutional team led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
In cell-culture studies, the researchers determined the ability of monoclonal antibodies as well as antibodies isolated from the convalescent plasma of previously infected people to neutralize highly transmissible variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that have arisen in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil and else