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OUR bodies are electric. It’s not just our brains and hearts â almost every cell has an electrical charge, and hacking it might be a way to treat cancer. Researchers have used light to shift the charge of cancer cells in frogs, making them healthy again.
Itâs some way off being a human therapy, but this is the first use of a technique called optogenetics to target cancer, opening up the possibility of treatments that donât use toxic drugs. âThis is just the beginning,â says at…
