Scientists develop nanoresponses capable of absorbing toxins in the body

You must have watched those movies where one of the characters is bitten by a deadly snake and the hero of the story is forced to suck the dying man's wound to try to eliminate the poison, right? Because, according to the LA Times, researchers at the University of California have developed nanospans that can do just that: eliminate toxins that are harmful to the body from the bloodstream.

Nanospores were created from a biocompatible polymer that was coated with cell membrane segments of the "host" red blood cells. This coating serves to fool the victim's immune system and prevent its attack. Thus, these microstructures have free passage to circulate and sweep the bloodstream of drug resistant toxins or bacteria.

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Each microstructure is 3, 000 times smaller than a blood cell, and upon completion of the scan, the nanoresjas are metabolized by the liver without causing any organ damage and then eliminated. At the moment, the tests were performed on laboratory mice that were infected with Staphylococcus aureus - or SARM - a type of bacteria resistant to various types of antibiotics.

The researchers recorded an 89% survival rate among animals given the pre-infection dose of nano responders and 44% among those injected after being infected with MRSA.

Although they have discovered this incredible feature of nanospans, the focus of the experiments is to develop such structures to release drugs into the bloodstream and treat various types of cancer, as well as "guided" toxins that can search for and destroy certain cell types.