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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.
