{"id":59250,"date":"2022-02-17T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta-ukri.msappproxy.net\/?page_id=59250"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:49:40","slug":"video-hong-lin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/news-and-events\/101-jobs-that-change-the-world\/video-hong-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoholder\">\n<p><span class=\"videowrapper embed-youtube-nocookie aspect_ratio_562\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The technician making new COVID-19 treatments with llamas - 101 Jobs That Change The World (Ep 29)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mp8B_Vnb_rA?list=PLkjB0VcEl5P-lB56uVLk35_Vn9_7Eh7Xa\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span> <!-- \/.videowrapper --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Video credit: UKRI<br \/>\nOn-screen captions and an autogenerated transcript are available on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Llamas and their close relatives have unusual immune systems. They can make a special type of antibody called nanobodies to fight infection. Compared to regular antibodies, they&#8217;re smaller, more stable and highly targeted.<\/p>\n<p>When a llama is injected with a harmless protein, they will produce nanobodies that target and neutralise that specific protein. The nanobodies can then be collected and purified from a blood sample.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are interested in the potential of nanobodies to help patients whose immune systems are struggling to fight off COVID-19. They&#8217;re also investigating them as a treatment for asthma and high cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Lin manages the daily running of the research labs. In the llama study, she manages the llama&#8217;s injection and blood collection schedules. She prepares the injection contents on the day, before taking them to the university farm where the llamas live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video credit: UKRI On-screen captions and an autogenerated transcript are available on YouTube. Llamas and their close relatives have unusual immune systems. They can make a special type of antibody called nanobodies to fight infection. Compared to regular antibodies, they&#8217;re smaller, more stable and highly targeted. When a llama is injected with a harmless protein, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"parent":23849,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"wf_page_folders":[],"class_list":["post-59250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-ukri"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59283,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59250\/revisions\/59283"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59250"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=59250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}