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Alpaca nanobodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants

The Pharma Data

. “With the help of advanced laboratory techniques, we were able to identify a panel of nanobodies that very effectively neutralized several variants of SARS-CoV-2,” says Gerald McInerney, professor at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, and joint senior author of both studies.

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What Limits a Genome’s Size?

Codon

Credit: Oriane Hidalgo Per the book Cell Biology by the Numbers , each base pair of DNA occupies 1 nm 3 of space. The HK97 virus, for example, infects E. So how can a genome 50 times longer—equivalent to 2,000 kilometers of thread, or roughly the distance between Cairo and Rome—do the same?

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From the Top: Adele Hannigan, Antibody Analytics

Drug Discovery World

I was fortunate to join the four-year Wellcome Trust PhD programme, which allowed me to dabble in three areas of biology (genetics/ molecular biology, virology and parasitology) before embarking on my PhD, which combined elements of all of these placements.