Wisconsin’s Warfarin Connection

Shepher Express David Luhrssen Madison writer Doug Moe chronicles the life of the eccentric UW biochemist whose discovery saved many lives. Warfarin saved millions of human lives—and killed millions of rats. To the layman, an anticoagulant-rodenticide makes for an odd combo, but for biochemists it makes sense. The primary researcher behind warfarin was a UW-Madison […]