NATS 1870 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Metastasis, Calci, Nanoparticle

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1870
• Professor: Tatiana Ouvarova

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Harnessing the power of light to fight cancer vitalrecord. tamhsc. edu /harnessing-the-power-of-light-to-fight-cancer/ Immunotherapy is one of the hottest emerging areas of cancer research. After all, using the body"s own cells to fight cancer can be more effective and less invasive than flooding the entire system with toxic chemicals. Yubin zhou, ph. d. , assistant professor at the center for translational cancer research at the texas a&m health. Science center institute of biosciences & technology, is studying how to use light to control the immune system and induce it to fight cancer. Although neuroscientists have been using light to stimulate neurons for years, this is the first time the technique, called optogenetics, has been used in the immune system, zhou said. In neuroscience, the process involves genetically engineering cells to produce proteins from light-sensitive microbes and results in nerve cells that will either send or stop sending nerve impulses when they are exposed to a particular color of light.