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Children's antibodies can be used to develop new therapies for Covid-19: Study

Not only are children a potential source of new therapies against Covid-19, but deciphering their antigen-specific antibody repertoires could prove useful in improving the treatment of other infectious diseases

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Image for representational purposes only. Photo Courtesy: iStock

Image for representational purposes only. Photo Courtesy: iStock

Researchers have found that children's antibodies can effectively fight out Covid-19 infection, and that kids could be an underutilised source of potential antibody therapies to counteract the "ever-evolving" SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in the US found that children's antibodies displayed high levels of neutralisation and potency against variants of the Covid virus, even when they had not previously been exposed to or vaccinated against those variants.

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