Blood-clotting drug derived from pigs can now be made synthetically
Heparin prevents blood clotting and is used in many surgeries Luca Medical / Alamy A widely used anti-clotting drug called heparin is currently obtained from the intestines of a trillion pigs a year, which means there is a risk of accidental or deliberate contamination, as well as infections. Now, a way to make it synthetically […]