This pill could protect us from radiation after a nuclear meltdown nationalgeographic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalgeographic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
First-in-human trial of oral drug to remove radioactive contamination begins northdallasgazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from northdallasgazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A first-in-human clinical trial of an experimental oral drug for removing radioactive contaminants from inside the body has begun. The trial is testing the safety, tolerability and processing in the body of escalating doses of the investigational drug product HOPO 14-1 in healthy adults. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, is funding the Phase 1 trial, which is sponsored and conducted by SRI International of Menlo Park, California.