"Vegan" Heparin Offers Safer Alternative to Animal-Sourced Anticoagulants (IMAGE)

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"Vegan" Heparin Offers Safer Alternative to Animal-Sourced Anticoagulants

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Chemical structure of a new synthetic compound that could replace animal-sourced heparin to treat blood clotting.

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Y. Xu <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2017)

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