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The Ingber Lab at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital
Boston has developed a magnetic blood filtering system to get rid
of microbes from blood in situ. This system works by adding
plastic-coated iron-oxide beads that are coated with antibodies for
a specific pathogen. The beads will then strongly adhere to the
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