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2020-05-05 Science & Technology
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Israel isolates monoclonal anti-coronavirus antibody
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[YNet] - Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory, the defence minister said on Monday, calling the step a "significant breakthrough" toward a possible treatment for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The "monoclonal neutralizing antibody" developed at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) "can neutralize it (the disease-causing coronavirus) inside carriers' bodies," Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement.
...It quoted IIBR Director Shmuel Shapira as saying that the antibody formula was being patented, after which an international manufacturer would be sought to mass-produce it.
Antibodies in such samples - immune-system proteins that are residues of successfully overcoming the coronavirus - are widely seen as a key to developing a possible cure.
The antibody reported as having been isolated at the IIBR is monoclonal, meaning it was derived from a single recovered cell and is thus potentially of more potent value in yielding a treatment.
Elsewhere, there have been coronavirus treatments developed from antibodies that are polyclonal, or derived from two or more cells of different ancestry, the magazine Science Direct reported in its May issue. 
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