Camels and alpacas have special antibodies. Now researchers can make them with yeast

One of the biggest obstacles to obtaining a special and prized kind of antibody is that you need to know someone with a camel.

Fine. An alpaca would do as well.

But given that these animals aren’t exactly hanging around many research centers — and that they’re not so easy to work with — scientists have been developing synthetic ways of producing these antibodies.

“How many camels are there around?” said Tom Moran, the director of the Center for