News Story: Artificial Spleen Clears Blood of Ebola, HIV, etc. (testing phase)

[Gauss44]

Found a news story I think others on here will be interested in. I wonder if this is as good as it sounds. (Hasn't been tested on humans, or even pigs yet, but claims it can remove Ebola and HIV from human blood.)

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/artificial...iv-viruses-toxins-blood-using-magnets-1465585

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[mik30102]

Sounds interesting for sepsis, though it probably would only work in early stages before the patient starts to completely crash. I don't see how it would work with HIV unless your hooked up to it for life since HIV integrates with the genome.

 

[mehc012]

I'm super skeptical that their nanoparticles will magically attach to any and everything that's not human and help us clear it, which is essentially what the article is trying to imply.

I mean, I get that it's modelled after a protein we already have, but the only thing which really changes using it is the method of removal, and it's making a LOT of assumptions about what will actually be bound.