{"id":2300,"date":"2014-09-15T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2014-09-15T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:08:22","slug":"artificial-spleen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/artificial-spleen\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial spleen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Generation: Blood-Cleansing Device<br \/>\nAn external device that mimics the structure of a spleen can cleanse the blood of rats with acute sepsis, ridding the fluid of pathogens and toxins.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/40979\/title\/Next-Generation--Blood-Cleansing-Device\/\">http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/40979\/title\/Next-Generation&#8211;Blood-Cleansing-Device\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A cool idea, but an interesting caveat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFink cautioned that bacterial resistance is a theoretical possibility. &#8220;Using this device will remove bacteria that sticks best to MBL, which might select for bacteria that don&#8217;t stick well to MBL,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To underestimate the bacteria would be a mistake.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was also amused to note the inclusion of &#8216;HIV&#8217; and the even more topical &#8216;Ebola&#8217;; got to spew as many buzzwords as possible to maximize your chance of getting into the mainstream press and all the attention that would lead to!  Of course, I would do exactly the same, so I can&#8217;t blame them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Generation: Blood-Cleansing Device An external device that mimics the structure of a spleen can cleanse the blood of rats with acute sepsis, ridding the fluid of pathogens and toxins. http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/40979\/title\/Next-Generation&#8211;Blood-Cleansing-Device\/ A cool idea, but an interesting caveat: Fink cautioned that bacterial resistance is a theoretical possibility. &#8220;Using this device will remove bacteria that sticks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/artificial-spleen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Artificial spleen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}