Researchers from Dundee and Glasgow universities say they have managed to identify a number proteins created by coronavirus and are using that information to find biological tools to treat and defeat it.

Scientists at Dundee University have identified 38 separate proteins, created by the virus that causes Covid 19 - each of them produce an immune response in the body.

Over the next four months they will try to understand how they work and to generate antibodies against them.

Those findings will then be passed to a team at Glasgow University who will further study the virus.

The antibodies designed by the collaboration will then be made available to researchers around the world in a bid to tackle the disease.