Although a few types of COVID-19 vaccines have begun to be distributed around the world, a unique technology, developed at University of California, San Francisco, may offer an even more direct way to prevent the coronavirus from multiplying within the body. The UCSF team created a synthetic antibody that prevents SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from binding to human cells. These synthetic antibodies, known as nanobodies, are modeled on tiny antibodies that camels and llamas often generate to protect…
