sarah darwins
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Sometimes it's good to be reminded of just how awesome science can be.
There's something a bit old school about this invention, and about its inventor.
Source: The Telegraph, 23 Feb 2016 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...166495/Fresh-blood-to-help-fight-malaria.html
MediSieve website: http://www.medisieve.com
There's something a bit old school about this invention, and about its inventor.
George Frodsham, 29, who holds a PhD from University College London, has devised a new machine that strips out infected cells from the bloodstream and can reduce a child’s “infection burden” – the measure of how likely the patient is to die – by 90pc within three and a half hours ...
The MediSieve – so called because of the way it sieves out the infection – is currently in pre-clinical testing, and could go to full clinical trials as early as next year because it doesn’t introduce pharmaceuticals into the body. In contrast, a vaccine called Mosquirix was finally given the green light last summer after 30 years of research – and it still hasn’t come to market ...
To bring down the cost of developing the device, the nanotechnology graduate used 3D printers to create bespoke parts for the prototype.
“We’ve taken the technology from something I built in my garage to something that can be easily mass-produced,” he says ...
“A whole new industry could be created within healthcare that moves away from using pharmaceuticals as a way of treating everything towards a purely physical way of removing bad stuff from blood.”
Source: The Telegraph, 23 Feb 2016 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...166495/Fresh-blood-to-help-fight-malaria.html
MediSieve website: http://www.medisieve.com