Undercooked or raw hamburgers, Salami, Alfalfa sprouts and many more food stuffs carry the dangerous bacteria like E. coli and others toxins that pulls down the human digestive system completely. Ideal lip-smacking meal can turn into a disastrous condition when such toxins enter our bloodstream. And till date there's nothing much that can be done to counter this problem immediately. Except for the treatment of antibiotics to be followed when the symptoms start surfacing. However David Bundle and his colleagues at the University of Alberta have developed a drug that can remove toxins from the bloodstream. Doctors could inject the nano-medicine into gravely ill patients to protect them from hemolytic-uremic syndrome and other types of damage that are caused by bacteria.

Each of the stringy saviors, called PolyBAIT, is decorated with carbohydrates that act like barbs. Those little hooks can snag onto bacterial poisons and then stick them to HuSAP, a protein from the human immune system. The HuSAP and PolyBAIT disarm each toxin molecule, and then drag them out of the bloodstream. Bundle and his team speculated that their invention could also be used alongside antibiotics to treat the worst E. Coli infections.

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