Breathing easier – nature-inspired treatments could relieve acute respiratory distress
In 2014, Professor Kai Zacharowski, Director of the Clinic for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the Goethe University Hospital of Frankfurt, Germany, was treating a particularly complicated case of an Ebola patient in acute respiratory distress. As the man’s condition worsened, Zacharowski reached for a new experimental drug – a molecule