What is IgY?

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What is IgY?

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  • Medical research

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  • cystic fibrosis
  • igy
  • chicken antibodies
  • pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • antibiotics

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  • Drug candidate from hen’s eggs can replace antibiotics

    Antibodies from hen’s eggs (IgY) may shortly come to revolutionize the treatment of patients suffering from the incurable disease cystic fibrosis. The European Commission has granted Swedish researchers over €5 million to ­conduct a clinical phase III study. The IgY-method, using antibodies from hen’s eggs, prevents infections and is also interesting as an alternative treatment to antibiotics.