Ginkgo Bioworks and Optimvia are partnering to boost the manufacturing efficiency of biosynthetic heparin, a medicine commonly used as an anticoagulant to help prevent blood clots. Under the ...

A combination of chemicals and enzymes may be at the center of big efficiency improvements in drug-making. Researchers working on a chemoenzymatic approach to the manufacture of heparin say they've ...

Heparin, the world's most widely used blood thinner, is used during procedures ranging from kidney dialysis to open heart surgery. Currently, heparin is derived from pig intestines, but scientists at ...

Scientists at the University of California-San Diego say they have moved one step closer to the ability to make heparin in cultured cells. Heparin is a potent anti-coagulant and the most prescribed ...

Researchers moved one step closer to the ability to make heparin in cultured cells. Heparin is a potent anti-coagulant and the most prescribed drug in hospitals, yet cell-culture-based production of ...

Washington - China and the United States traded charges Monday about whether a contaminant in the blood thinner heparin caused severe allergic reactions linked to as many as 81 deaths. Federal health ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Chinese manufacturer of a heparin ingredient does not have adequate systems for ensuring that the raw materials it uses are safe and that any impurities are removed, the Food and ...