Antibody cocktail given to Trump 'best shot' for Covid-specific therapy, says Australian scientist
by Australian Associated Press from Science | The Guardian on (#58T6N)
Prof Peter Doherty says monoclonal antibodies are really powerful' and could be manufactured in large quantities in Australia
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One of the therapies being provided to the US president, Donald Trump, could pave the way to fighting Covid-19, one of Australia's top scientists has said.
Prof Peter Doherty, who shared the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1996 for his work on how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells, believes a vaccine might not be the only answer.
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