{"id":9022,"date":"2021-11-04T00:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=9022"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:19:58","slug":"therapeutic-antibody-cocktail-for-prevention-and-treatment-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/9022\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapeutic Antibody Cocktail for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Han-Chung Wu\u2019s research group in Academia Sinica recently generated a series of chimeric antibodies that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 by binding to the spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD). Two of the identified antibodies were combined in a cocktail therapy that shows remarkable ability to attenuate viral infection and disease progression in animal models. The work was published in 21, Oct, 2021 in the world-renowned journal, <em>PLoS Pathogens<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Article Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plospathogens\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.ppat.1009704\">https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plospathogens\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.ppat.1009704<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9023 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33-1080x649.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33-1280x768.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33-627x376.jpg 627w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33-440x264.jpg 440w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/webimage-33.jpg 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Han-Chung Wu\u2019s research group in Academia Sinica recently generated a series of chimeric antibodies that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 by binding to the spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD). Two of the identified antibodies were combined in a cocktail therapy that shows remarkable ability to attenuate viral infection and disease progression in animal models. The work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[533],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13209,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions\/13209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}