Safer Synthetic Alternative to Contaminated Heparin

The main source for heparin is the intestines of foreign livestock.

Disgusting!

The intestines of foreign livestock creates a condition that is wide open for mass contamination which recently happened in the latest China heparin catastrophe.

A team at the University of North Carolina developed synthetic heparin in 2006 and has worked since that time to fine tune a safer and better version of the blood thinner heparin. Oddly, the backbone for the new heparin comes from the bacteria found in e.coli which is easier to produce.

Through a proprietary scientific process it will probably take around five years to produce the demand required and go through clinical trials.

Better living with chemistry.