Cure cancer with ... magnets?

Extremely powerful magnets, which can cause tumors to self-destruct will be a 'revolutionary' new weapon in the fight against cancer.

Korean scientists have invented the use of magnet magnetic fields to activate suicide cells effectively. This method works for both intestinal cancer cells and live fish in the experimental tank.

The team's next plan is to test a new method in several other cancers to see if magnet fields can destroy other malignant tumors.

Can use magnetic fields to cause cancer cells to self-destruct.

Normally, programmed cell death (ie, Apotosis) is one of the important mechanisms of the body to eliminate old, defective or infected cells. After receiving certain signals from the body, the above cells will shrink and then break themselves into pieces. These debris will be submerged and 'digested' by amoeba immune cells .

But with cancer, apoptosis does not work, so malignant cells are allowed to divide out of control.

Magnetic therapy will create tiny iron nanoparticles that bind to antibody proteins produced by the body's immune system when it detects 'dangerous' toxins .

After that, iron nanoparticles will precipitate and cling to the molecules of tumor cells. They make these molecules stick together, activate the 'death signal' automatically, DailyMail explains.

This process lit up the hope of allowing the killing of cancer cells with the body's usual apoptosis.

'Bowel cancer cells are exposed to nanoparticles and placed between two magnetic fields. More than half of the cells were destroyed after the magnetic field was turned on, and the cells that were not in contact with the nanoparticles were not affected , "said Nature Materials.

Even so, experts say it's far from ready to be tested on humans.