Charlottetown-based life sciences company AffinityImmuno Inc. is teaming up with the University of Western Ontario to conduct animal tests on a compound they believe can battle COVID-related viruses.
Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan and Amir Zuccolo, AffinityImmuno specializes in antibodies, which are proteins used by the human body’s immune system to search out “foreign invaders” like viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasites. Once the antibodies detect these invaders, other parts of the immune system set out to destroy them.
On a whim, the Zuccolos recently investigated some