Platelet ‘decoys’ outsmart both clots and cancer

A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and several collaborating institutions has created a drug-free, reversible antiplatelet therapy that uses deactivated “decoy” platelets to reduce the risk of blood clots and potentially prevent cancer metastasis.

Lindsay Brownell
Feb. 13, 2019 | harvard

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