The search for effective nanobodies – which are fragments of antibodies that occur naturally in camelids and can be adapted for humans – began in February when a 12-year-old alpaca named Tyson ...

What do alpacas have that we don’t? Single-domain antibody fragments. Other camelids have them as well, and there are ways to get them from humans, but new research from the Whitehead Institute for ...

Multiplexed immunostaining of HeLa cells with three subclass-specific mouse primary and three alpaca anti-mouse Nano-Secondaries: Grey: Mouse anti-Vimentin IgG1 primary antibody and alpaca anti ...

Researchers developed an alpaca-derived antibody that could lead to a cheaper and more effective therapeutic option for the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. The team from Kyoto University ...

Alpacas are one of very few animals that can naturally produce single-domain antibodies. These are much smaller than common antibodies and are often referred to as nanobodies. Cheaper, and easier ...

The IGH-VDJ genes in the mouse genome have been successfully replaced by alpaca IGH-VDJ genes in-situ. In 1993, naturally occurring heavy-chain-only antibodies (HCAbs) were discovered.