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