麻豆社

A Covid therapy derived from a llama named Fifi has shown "significant potential" in early trials.

It is a treatment made of "nanobodies" - small, simpler versions of antibodies, which llamas and camels produce naturally in response to infection. Once the therapy has been tested in humans, scientists say, it could be given as a simple nasal spray - to treat and even prevent early infection of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.

Prof James Naismith is director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute in Oxford, which has been doing this research. The 麻豆社's Razia Iqbal asked him, Why llamas?

Photo shows" Fifi the 'Franklin llama', who lives at a farm facility at the University of Reading. Credit: University of Reading