How can llamas help defeat biological weapons?
As most of us know, llamas are our friends. They’re soft, good-natured and amusing to view, and their name has the distinction of being one of only 12 words in the English language starting with a double-L (according Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged). But little did we know that these fuzzy, camel-like creatures might save us all should the End come in the form of a biological attack. For many years, scientists have been developing devices called biosensors that can detect the first signs of biological warfare. These sensors are made up of antibodies, usually cloned human antibodies called Immunoglobin G (IgG). IgGs are one of the tools that the human immune system uses to detect, target and destroy viruses like cholera and smallpox, which have been cited as potential biological weapons. Specific antibodies bind only to specific virus antig
