Engineer Finds Way to Pull Diseases From Blood Using Magnets

Futurism ^ | 12 Nov 2019 | Kristin Houser

[Theoria]

A British engineer has found a way to filter unwanted cells from blood using magnets — and his tool could be used in clinical trials as soon as next year.

Thanks to existing research, biochemical scientist George Frodsham knew it was possible to force magnetic nanoparticles to bind to specific cells in the body. But while other researchers did so primarily to make those cells show up in images, he wondered whether the same technique might allow doctors to remove unwanted cells from the blood.

“When someone has a tumour you cut it out,” he told The Telegraph. “Blood cancer is a tumour in the blood, so why not just take it out in the same way?”

To that end, he created MediSieve, a treatment technology that works similarly to dialysis, by removing a patient’s blood and infusing it with magnetic nanoparticles designed to bind to a specific disease. It then uses magnets to draw out and trap those cells before pumping the filtered blood back into the patient.

The idea is that doctors could run a person’s blood through the machine several times until their levels of the disease are low enough to be wiped out by drugs or even the patient’s own immune system.

Frodsham’s team is currently awaiting approval from the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to trial the system on patients infected with the malaria parasite, which is naturally magnetic thanks to its consumption of its own iron-based waste product.

[Jemian]

My question is if you have blood cancer is it only in your blood?

It may or may not be in your blood only. It might also be in your bone marrow. It can be in your lymph nodes and it could show up in other places.

[DannyTN]

[Jane Long]

:-)

[Wonder Warthog]

Without the background innovations in antigen-antibody synthesis, this wouldn’t be possible. The real creativity award goes to the folks who developed that tech.

[pax_et_bonum]

Or you could use a magnet to save on gas.

[itsahoot]

You would thing a MRI or CT scan would cure everyone.

I have had several of them and my wife can attest to the fact they don't work for that. 😀

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping; post; thread. Interesting. Health/life BUMP!

[Sequoyah101]

Impossible. Serious advancements in medicine can only be made in countries like the United States that don’t have national health care. Every one knows that the promise of fantastic profits are all that can advance the cause of medicine. Without unlimited prices for medicine there can be no real progress. /s

[Bommer]

What if I have lead poisoning?

[matthew fuller]

From many listed on Startpage.com-

https://www.fastcompany.com/1299305/magnetic-blood-cleaning-procedure-could-save-lives-star-trek-style

https://www.medisieve.com/Latest-News/DNNArticle-Detail-View/ArticleId/7808/MediSieve-magnetic-blood-filter-is-granted-US-patent-1

https://vector.childrenshospital.org/2013/04/of-magnets-and-bacteria-filtering-the-blood-of-patients-with-sepsis/

[June2]

I was just looking at a study that mentioned chronic kidney disease when I was researching vitamin K2. See section 8.6 of the study linked below. May or may not be helpful.

Vitamin K: Double Bonds beyond Coagulation Insights into Differences between Vitamin K1 and K2 in Health and Disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413124/