Rensselaer heparin expert helps uncover source of lethal contamination
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:47
in Health & Medicine
The mysterious death of patients around the world following a routine dosage of the common blood thinner, heparin, sent researchers on a frantic search to uncover what could make the standard drug so toxic. A researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was among a small group of scientists with the expertise and the high-tech equipment necessary to determine the source of the contamination...
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