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Magnetic nanoparticles that filter diseases from blood awaiting human trials

Once technology is proven it could be used to remove ageing factors in old blood

10-Nov-2019

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British engineer designed a blood filtering system which sieves away disease.

Blood is removed from the patient, infused with tiny magnetic particles that bind to the specific disease.

Bound substances are trapped in the system using magnets and the ‘cleaned’ blood is pumped back.

Whole process is likely to take just two to four hours and repeated if necessary.

Leukaemia, sepsis, and malaria could be drawn from the body using magnets.

Testing will begin on malaria in 2020 followed by trials, for removing sepsis-causing bacteria.

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George Frodsham

Founder and CEO at MediSieve Ltd

MediSieve

A revolutionary new approach to targeting blood-borne diseases by magnetically filtering specific disease-causing components from the bloodstream

University College London (UCL)

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