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paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09661-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09661-0 Had never heard of "nanobodies" before. https:/
by marojejian 1y ago
paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09661-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09661-0
Had never heard of "nanobodies" before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-domain_antibody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-domain_antibody
sounds really promising. and fun that they come from camelids, like llamas and alpacas.
P.S.
This is a more conventional approach vs. the guy who let a bunch of snakes bite him:
https://www.wpr.org/news/meet-wisconsin-man-let-hundreds-venomous-snakes-bite https://www.wpr.org/news/meet-wisconsin-man-let-hundreds-ven...
(also a great story).
P.P.S. Coincidentally I got angry when during an economics podcast, they referred the saying that camels are "horses designed by a committee." No biologist would say such a thing. camels kick ass at their environment, and apparently they can help us with our environment too.