Microfluidic device designed to cleanse blood

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In a natural phenomenon known as margination, platelets and leukocytes (white blood cells) within the bloodstream move towards the sides of blood vessels and adhere to them. It occurs at wound sites, during the early stages of inflammation. Recently, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore have put that process to work in a microfluidic device that could be used to cleanse the blood, perhaps acting as a treatment for bacteria-related blood disorders such as sepsis... Continue Reading Microfluidic device designed to cleanse blood

Section: Health and Wellbeing

Tags: Bacteria, Blood, Microfluidic, MIT, National University of Singapore

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