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New Blood-Cleansing Device Removes Pathogens, Toxins From Blood

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jan_jes writes: A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute last year described the development of a device to treat sepsis that works by mimicking the human spleen. The device cleanses pathogens and toxins from blood flowing through a dialysis-like circuit. Now the team has developed an improved device that works with conventional antibiotic therapies and is better positioned for near-term use in clinics. The improved design will be described in the October issue of Biomaterials. This approach can be administered quickly, even without identifying the infectious agent.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+Blood-Cleansing+Device+Removes+Pathogens%2C+Toxins+From+Blood%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1NA9GuA"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F08%2F21%2F1410207%2Fnew-blood-cleansing-device-removes-pathogens-toxins-from-blood%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/08/21/1410207/new-blood-cleansing-device-removes-pathogens-toxins-from-blood?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/08/21/1410207/new-blood-cleansing-device-removes-pathogens-toxins-from-blood?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/beBHJYsi5ro" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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