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  • New blood filtering system could draw disease from the body using magnets

    11/21/2019 12:39:51 PM PST · by Red Badger · 34 replies
    www.news-medical.net ^ | By Sally Robertson, B.Sc. Nov 11 2019
    An award-winning engineer has developed a new technology that could draw deadly infections such as malaria and sepsis from the body using magnets. ================================================================ George Frodsham designed the blood filtering system whilst studying how magnetic nanoparticles can bind to cells to make them detectable during imaging. He realized that if the nanoparticles can be made to magnetize cells so that they show up on scanners, it should also be possible to use them to draw cells from the blood. “In theory, you can go after almost anything” Theoretically, any bacteria, virus, or blood cancer, such as leukemia, could be bound...
  • Engineer Finds Way to Pull Diseases From Blood Using Magnets

    11/15/2019 9:52:52 AM PST · by Theoria · 50 replies
    Futurism ^ | 12 Nov 2019 | Kristin Houser
    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...