So doctors must turn it off with another drug, called protamine.

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Neutralase, an enzyme that chews up heparin, could replace protamine.

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Robert Langer, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, isolated it from bacteria when he was a graduate student in the late 1970s after hearing about protamine from a physician he worked with.

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