Margination Gets The Integrated Circuit Treatment To Fix Sepsis
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 21:40
in Health & Medicine
Integrated circuit techniques can do just about anything - perhaps even help cure sepsis.Margination is natural phenomenon where bacteria and leukocytes (white blood cells) move toward the sides of blood vessels. Now it's the inspiration for a novel method of treating sepsis, a systemic and often dangerous inflammatory response to microbial infection in the blood. read more
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