“We should be able to reestablish the brakes and restore normal cell function,” said Prof. Panos Anastasiades of the Mayo Clinic’s Department for Cancer Biology, the Telegraph reported, regarding the ability to revert cancerous cells back to being harmless by reversing the process that allows them to replicate too quickly.
Though the technique to date has only been tested on human cells in a laboratory setting, researchers are optimistic that it oculd be used to target large tumors in some aggressive type so cancer, like breast, liver, and bladder.
“Initial experiments in some aggressive types of cancer are indeed very promising.
“It represents an unexpected new biology that provides the code, the software for turning off cancer,” Anastasiadis said.
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