'We are happy to announce we have completed the engineering and we have some very potent antibodies that can be effective against the virus,' Dr Glanville said. But, because they're cousins, Dr Glanville says the antibodies that fight against one virus likely work agains the other. 'So what we've done is we've created hundreds of millions of versions of those antibodies,' he told Radio New Zealand. Pictured: Dr Glanville with a colleague, left, and in Netflix's Pandemic, rightThe next step involves sending the antibodies to the military for confirmation testing and partnering with companies to speed up production. Dr Glanville said he and his colleagues are in contact with the US government about potentially conducting a study on the treatment's usefulness.

Source: Daily Mail March 31, 2020 22:48 UTC