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OUR bodies are electric. It’s not just our brains and hearts 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.
Its some way off being a human therapy, but this is the first use ofa technique called optogenetics to target cancer, opening up the possibility of treatments that dont use toxic drugs. This isjustthe beginning, says at…
