Can South Dako­ta's trans­genic cows help treat the flu?; A speedy re­view for Mer­ck­'s Pre­vnar ri­val in kids

Wednes­day brought an­oth­er win for South Dako­ta’s biggest trans­genic cow so far.

SAB Bio­ther­a­peu­tics, which de­vel­ops treat­ments by col­lect­ing and dis­till­ing an­ti­bod­ies from cows with hu­man­ized im­mune sys­tems, an­nounced that its an­ti­body treat­ment for flu passed an ear­ly-stage chal­lenge study.

Vol­un­teers were in­ten­tion­al­ly ex­posed to the flu virus and then giv­en in­fu­sions of the SAB an­ti­body treat­ment or place­bo. Those who re­ceived the an­ti­body treat­ment saw a sig­nif­i­cant­ly greater re­duc­tion in vi­ral load and symp­toms than those who re­ceived place­bo. The com­pa­ny didn’t re­lease num­bers but said the p-val­ue was 0.026.

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