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Nov 10, 2019

Blood ‘cleaning’ treatment which pulls disease from body using magnets ready for human trials

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Deadly conditions like leukaemia, sepsis and malaria could be drawn from the body using magnets, after a British engineer designed a blood filtering system which sieves away disease.

Dr George Frodsham, came up with the idea while studying how magnetic nanoparticles can be made to bind to cells in the body, to allow, for example those cells to show up on scanners.

But he realised that if it was possible to magnetise cells for imaging, it should also be possible to then suck them out of the blood.

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  1. colleen says:

    please provide research info

  2. Gail Tally says:

    I am interested

  3. Joey says:

    OK I’d try it I’ve had leukemia since Oct of 2015

  4. B grace says:

    Where are the clinical trials and proof please.

  5. John Causey says:

    would like to know more