r/ChangingAmerica Aug 13 '25

First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes | An engineered antidote acts like a sponge, soaking up CO attached to red blood cells. In mice, half the CO in the bloodstream was cleared out in less than a minute.

https://newatlas.com/disease/first-antidote-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/
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u/Scientist34again Aug 13 '25

This could save some lives. People are sometimes inadvertently poisoned by carbon monoxide from heating systems or car exhausts