Sweet - sugared polymer a new weapon against allergies and asthma

Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 06:49 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at Johns Hopkins and their colleagues have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks. Their advance is a significant step toward crafting pharmaceuticals to fight these often life-endangering conditions in a new way...

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