Designing drugs and their antidotes together improves patient care
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 02:42
in Health & Medicine
Imagine a surgical patient on a blood-thinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately - because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work together. Researchers at Duke University Medical Centre have engineered a way to do this for an entire, versatile class of drugs called aptamers and published their findings in Nature Medicine...