The good news is, there may be a way to get the world flying again. The bad news is, it involves coating your nostrils in chicken antibodies.
Scientists are testing a way of providing temporary protection against coronavirus, by turning chickens into antibody production lines, making nose drops they hope will attack the virus.
The approach, which is being tested in humans in Australia, harnesses the ability of chickens to first make antibodies to an infection, and then lay them in an egg. “They are fantastic little factories,” Daria Mochly-Rosen, from Stanford University, said. “And they are cheap, cheap, cheap.”
She and her colleagues have been injecting chickens with the coronavirus spike protein, and then harvesting the antibodies they make from their eggs. They believe
