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Researchers use nanosponges to mop up MRSA toxin, venom from the bloodstream

2013-04-18 17:11:07| Extremetech

Researchers at UCSD have come up with a way to combat the effects of alpha-haemolysin, the often lethal component of drug-resistant bacteria. By soaking it up with a polymer nanosponge wrapped in red blood cell membranes, animals by be cured from am otherwise lethal injection of the bacterial toxin.

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