Promising antibody drugs might not work against new variants, scientists say
Antibody cocktail drugs that offered ‘great hope’ in treating Covid-19 are ineffective against worrying new variants of the virus, research suggests. Lab tests found the experimental treatments, known as monoclonal antibodies, failed to neutralise strains which emerged in Kent, South Africa and Brazil. The drugs are derived from cloning a single antibody, a virus-fighting protein, found … Read more