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OUR bodies are electric. It’s not just our brains and hearts 鈥 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.
It鈥檚 some way off being a human therapy, but this is the first use of聽a technique called optogenetics to target cancer, opening up the possibility of treatments that don鈥檛 use toxic drugs. 鈥淭his is聽just聽the beginning,鈥 says at…
