Designing Drugs And Their Antidotes Together Improves Patient Care
Sunday, October 4, 2009 - 14:28
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 have engineered a way to do this for an entire, versatile class of drugs called aptamers.