safer alternative to heparin created, page-9

"...Linhardt announced that his research team may have accomplished this task by building the first fully synthetic heparin."

This is kind of strange, as acl's drug is a fully synthetic 'version' of heparin, with the none useful bits taken out. Why would you produce a fully synthetic 'normal' heparin, which I assume they are claiming to have produced (which contains harmful elements).

It would be a great piece of science to produce it, but why bother? It would be like reproducing a 1990's holden commodore. Why not reproduce a ferrari!