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Heparin Death Mystery Unraveled Thursday, April 24, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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An international team of researchers led by MIT has explained how contaminated batches of the blood-thinner heparin were able to slip past traditional safety screens and kill dozens of patients recently in the United States and Germany. The team, led by Professor Ram Sasisekharan of MIT, identified the chemical structure of the contaminant, known as oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS). (source: web.mit.edu)
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