Use magnets to purify the blood

More than half of people with sepsis or blood infections have died. Treatment is usually related to the use of free antibiotics that may cause signs of infection. However, when even the strongest antibiotics no longer work on bacteria, that's when the magnet speaks.

According to Engadget, a joint effort between Harvard University, Empa Research Group and Merkle Adolphe Institute have found a new way to clean the blood: simply sucking the bacteria out . by magnet. First, the researchers coated antibodies, which are closely linked to harmful bacteria, with iron particles. When exposed to bacteria, antibodies that do their job stick to bacteria. Then pass through a dialysis machine, the magnet retains the antibodies and the "pathogens" will have to leave the blood. The patient's blood will be completely clean.

In the future, we can use magnets to suck the bacteria in the blood out.

However, there is still a problem and the only problem facing the group: each antibody is created with a certain purpose, and therefore can only be associated with a single bacterium. Therefore, if there are many strains of bacteria in the blood, doctors will have to treat many times to handle them all. This will take a lot of time and is extremely expensive.

Coincidentally and fortunately, the Harvard team of the research team is also in the process of creating a "universal" synthetic antibody that can bind to all the most common bacterial strains causing sepsis. . However, the human body has not yet accepted this antibody, but its effectiveness is very promising.

However, until before the clinical trial, nothing was said.