Newly discovered mechanism by which blood clots form

Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 05:28 in Health & Medicine

Polyphosphate from blood platelets plays a key role in inflammation and the formation of blood clots, scientists from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown. The study, which is presented in the prestigious scientific journal Cell, describes how this mechanism can be used in treatment...

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