Korean scientists successfully kill cancer cells with magnets

In South Korea, scientists have used a magnetic field to kill cancer cells, themindunleashed.org reports. The body removes old, faulty, or infected cells through a process of programmed cell death (PCD) or apoptosis.

During apoptosis, the removed cell responds to certain signals sent by the body through a process of fragmentation. Immune cells then dispose of these fragments. Magnets act as a trigger and help trigger apoptosis. When apoptosis does not occur, the rejected cells divide uncontrollably, a tumor develops.

Professor Jinwoo Cheon of Yonsei University in Seoul and a team of scientists conducted experiments on bowel cancer cells using magnetic fields to induce apoptosis. They add iron nanoparticles to antibodies that bind to the "receptors" of molecules on tumor cells.

These molecular clusters, when the magnetic field is applied, signal “self-destruction” and thereby cause apoptosis. In the experiment, more than half of the bowel cancer cells were destroyed when the signal for clusters planned for apoptosis took effect. The untreated cells were not affected and remained unharmed.

source:nlo-mir.ru

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