An ingenious new technology - attach a metal bead attached to a specific antibody to invading bacteria, then use a magnet within a dialysis device to pull the bacteria out of the bloodstream. My question is why they don't attach an antibiotic to the antibody rather than this more complicated process to remove the bacteria from the body.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-06/dr-magneto
However, as one commenter points out online, it's the body's chemical response to bacteria that causes the illness of sepsis, rather than the bacteria. So by the time you're sick enough to be septic, the bacteria aren't the entity that's making you sick.
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