A factory in a chicken’s lungs to protect them against bird flu. It is an idea of students of the University of Groningen.
Mink Sieders, student of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Groningen, is one of those students from the research group.
At the table at De Staat van Drenthe, he explains what they have come up with to protect the chicken against bird flu: “We have given a bacteria that naturally lives in the lungs of chickens and is good for the immune system, an extra function. Namely nanobodies .” The extra function is a kind of superpower. “Those nanobodies that bind to the virus and prevent the virus from attaching to the cells of the chicken.”
And that looks like this:
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