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At the Nanobody Service Facility, a technology platform of the University of Zurich, scientists are using nine alpacas to produce nanoantibodies with very special properties. Thanks to their small size and strong binding capacity, they are a precision weapon in the fight against infectious and autoimmune diseases, in cancer therapy and in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. The SRF program "Puls" visited the technology platform.
Nanoantibodies come from the blood of the camelid family. They are produced at the Nanobody Service Facility on behalf of university hospitals, ETH researchers and other interested research groups. Dr. Saša Štefanić, head and co-founder of the Nanobody Service Facility, and Prof. Dr. Adrian Hehl, director of the Nanobody Service Facility, explain the new 'wonder weapon' of medicine in the report.
