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Llamas against AIDS

Llama antibodies could help fight HIV.

Llama antibodies could help fight HIV. An international team of researchers detected molecules in the South American camelid that can neutralise nearly 60 strains of the human immunodeficiency virus. The study was published in the journal “PLoS Pathogens” in December 2014. This research began in the 1990s in Belgium, according to the French newspaper “Le Monde”.



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