FASTER, PLEASE: A Portable Blood Cleanser for Treating Sepsis. “A portable machine that can treat sepsis by filtering pathogens from blood is nearing the point where it could be ready for human clinical testing. Recent tests in rats have shown that the device—which works in a similar way to the dialysis machines already used to filter the blood of patients with kidney failure—not only efficiently removes pathogenic material from the bloodstream but also works in concert with antibiotics to prevent a harmful immune response that can lead to organ malfunction and even death.”