Penn researchers demonstrate a new model for drug discovery with a fluorescent anesthetic

Sunday, April 5, 2009 - 17:42 in Biology & Nature

PHILADELPHIA -- A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania and University of Wisconsin chemists and anesthesiologists have identified a fluorescent anesthetic compound that will assist researchers in obtaining more precise information about how anesthetics work in the body and will provide a means to more rapidly test new anesthetic compounds in the search for safer and more effective drugs.

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