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Old 03-14-2020, 06:22 AM   #67 (permalink)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/c...ibodies_found/
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Erasmus and Utrecht University have announced a discovery of antibodies that could help find and fight Coronavirus infections. The research is currently being peer-reviewed with human testing still months away. Started as a hobbyproject of a professor who dove into the SARS and MERS outbreaks and applied findings in those cases to the current outbreak. Pharmaceutical companies are being contacted to get on board with production of the antibodies. Disclaimer: I am not a biologist and this is the best quick summary of the article in Dutch I could make.
Basically he had several experimental test sets prepared for SARS and MERS testing shelved in the fridge, and decided to test them out on the new corona virus - and one of them was a match.

This will enable quicker and more reliable tests in the future and a possible cure; and that well within the time needed to make a vaccine (which this isn't).
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