A Bead on Disease.

• Autores: Kate Wilcox
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 300, Nº. 6, 2009, págs. 22-23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article reports the development of micron-sized magnetic beads that can be used to pull diseases from the human bloodstream. The success of a model system developed by a team led by biologist Donald E. Ingber of Harvard Medical School and his postdoctoral fellow Chong Wing Yung is noted, mentioning that the system was able to remove sepsis-causing bacteria or fungi mix from patients' blood using magnetic beads.