Plasma

The idea is the antibodies in Weinrich’s plasma can help a sick patient fend off the infection. The 58-year-old computer programmer has donated his plasma, the antibody-rich liquid portion of his blood, four times over the past three months.“I’m sort of squeamish about needles, but I thought if I could turn my negative into a…

What may be an effective weapon against the novel coronavirus is coming from an unlikely source: a barn in South Dakota.SAb Biotherapeutics, a South Dakota-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, plans to begin human trials of a COVID-19 antibody treatment using plasma from cows.To do so, scientists genetically engineered the cattle's immune system to produce human antibodies that have the ability to…

A large study of 20,000 hospitalized covid-19 patients who received transfusions of blood plasma from people who recovered found the treatment was safe and suggests giving it to people early in the disease may be beneficial.The treatment, called convalescent plasma, is based on a century-old idea in medicine that has been used against measles, influenza…

Survivors of COVID-19 are donating their blood plasma in droves in hopes it helps other patients recover from the coronavirus. And while the jury’s still out, now scientists are testing if the donations might also prevent infection in the first place.Thousands of coronavirus patients in hospitals around the world have been treated with so-called convalescent…

Transfusions of plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19, the illness that SARS-CoV-2 causes, appear to be safe for severely ill patients and may speed their recovery, according to a preliminary study.Share on PinterestA new study has concluded that convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19 is safe.For more than 100 years, doctors have used convalescent…