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Sepsis is a potentially deadly inflammatory condition caused by infections.
敗血癥是由于感染所造成的潛在致命性炎癥性疾病。
Muppet creator Jim Henson was a famous victim.
提線木偶的締造者吉姆恒森就是身患此疾。
Proper treatment of sepsis can require knowing what bacteria or virus caused the infection.
而治療敗血癥需要分析患者感染何種細(xì)菌或病毒。
But the identification can take days, and by that time it's often too late.
但是分析需要花費(fèi)一定時(shí)日，而這通常會(huì)延誤治療。
Some eight million people die of sepsis annually worldwide.
每年世界上有大約800萬人死于敗血癥的魔爪。
Now, scientists at Harvard's Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering have come up with a device that cleans blood—without a need to diagnose the infectious agent.
而現(xiàn)在哈佛大學(xué)衛(wèi)斯生物研究機(jī)構(gòu)的科學(xué)家們已經(jīng)設(shè)計(jì)出一種并不需要提前診斷感染原就能夠凈化血液的裝置。
What's being called the bio-spleen seems to work even for antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
這種裝置被稱為生化脾臟，甚至可以在抗性細(xì)菌的環(huán)境下發(fā)揮功效。
In the device, blood is cycled outside the patient's body and gets filtered through microfluidic channels.
在生化脾臟的內(nèi)部，血液經(jīng)患者體外循環(huán)并且通過微流通道進(jìn)行過濾。
The channels nanoscale-sized magnetic beads attached to an immune system protein.
該通道中含有納米大小的磁力珠可以吸附免疫系統(tǒng)蛋白質(zhì)。
The protein naturally latches onto bacteria, fungi, viruses, and toxins.
這種蛋白質(zhì)通常情況下會(huì)附著細(xì)菌，真菌，病毒及毒物質(zhì)。
Then magnets pull the magnetic beads out of the blood, taking the attached pathogens and toxins along for the ride.
而后磁力將磁力珠移出出血液，當(dāng)然病原體和有毒物質(zhì)也被一并帶出。
The cleansed blood then flows back into the patient.
進(jìn)而經(jīng)過凈化后的血液輸送回患者體內(nèi)。
The researchers tested the system on human blood, and then on infected rats.
研究人員先后在人體血液及被感染小鼠進(jìn)行了實(shí)驗(yàn)測試。
In the trial, 90 percent of the treated rats recovered.
在試驗(yàn)中，90%的小鼠得到治愈。
Only 14 percent of the controls survived.
而對照組的存活率只有14%。
The research is in the journal Nature Medicine.
這項(xiàng)研究已經(jīng)在《自然醫(yī)學(xué)》雜志上發(fā)表。
The scientists hope to quickly scale up to human trials and ultimately develop a version that could find a place in the emergency room armamentarium.
科學(xué)家們希望迅速擴(kuò)大這一設(shè)備在人體實(shí)驗(yàn)方面的規(guī)模，并最終研發(fā)出能在急癥室內(nèi)醫(yī)療設(shè)備中有用武之地的版本。
