Nano Letters Vol. 14 No. 1

Artwork featured on the cover of Nano Letters Vol. 14 No. 1. Created for Dr. Jung-Jae Lee and the Kohane Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital for their paper "Synthetic Ligand-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Microfluidic Bacterial Separation from Blood."

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl3047305

The illustration shows the process by which blood from a septic patient (i.e., blood containing bacteria) is passed through a device where magnetic nanoparticles bind to the bacteria, then bind to an external magnet, thereby removing the bacteria from the bloodstream.