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Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Biospleen

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The Wyss Institute's spleen-like blood-cleansing device makes use of genetically modified blood proteins coated on magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic forces to pull a variety of pathogens from the blood.

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Harvard's Wyss Institute

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