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 attached iron nanoparticles to antibodies, which bind to “receptor” molecules on tumor cells. These molecules cluster when the magnetic field is applied, triggering the “self-destruct” signal and thereby apoptosis. In the experiment, over half of the bowel cancer cells were destroyed when the signal for apoptopic clustering came into effect. Untreated cells remained unaffected and unharmed. Read more: naturalsociety/scientists-successfully-kill-cancer-magnets/#ixzz35ClwzSaK Follow us: @naturalsociety on Twitter | NaturalSociety on Facebook
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:22:33 +0000
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