Chemists in Japan have used a widely available protein and a straightforward technique to make nanotubes that can bind reversibly to oxygen,just like haemoglobin.Teruyuki Komatsu from Waseda University,Tokyo,and colleagues first made an artificial hemoprotein by incorporating an iron-porphyrin into human serum albumin(HSA).HSA is a protein found in the plasma of human blood.
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