The fate of the Summer Olympics, if held as scheduled during the coronavirus pandemic, could hinge on llamas?
“Yep, that’s a possibility,’’ said Dr. Barry Bloom, former dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
“It turns out camelids, alpacas and llamas are the only species known that ... make not only complete antibodies, they make these nanobodies,’’ he added. “So the genetic engineering that was done was to start from antibodies from llamas made against COVID, and then cloning them into yeast and bacteria, so you don’t need llamas anymore.
“How much crazier can you get?