DARPA’s Artificial Spleen
December 2, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
While the military has a special need to control sepsis, civilian mortality in the US reaches 170,000 annually, and is the tenth leading cause of death. To deal with sepsis, which derives from both bacteria and their toxins, DARPA has developed an artificial spleen that resembles both a kidney dialysis machine and a hematopoietic stem cell isolator. The shoe-box size device has tubes containing blood and saline, and magnetic nano beads coated with mannose-binding lectin as the capturing mechanism. MORE
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