Researchers May Have Figured Out How To Control Immune Cells With Blue Light

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

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0:00.0	Researchers at Penn State have developed a way to modify immune cells that can be activated by blue light to destroy cancerous tumors.
0:07.0	Okay. Never works, man. Yeah. Turning them into attack dogs on those tumors.
0:13.0	It's see, yeah, suck them.
0:15.0	It seems like a good call.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	And also, just like, I don't know, it blows my mind.
0:20.0	What's that?
0:21.0	You have all this new technology and this gives you cancer, that gives you cancer. It's like,
0:24.0	seems like we should be able to use some of the technology like this to like, get rid of it.
0:28.8	Or fight it. Right. Yeah, fight fire with fire. I think that's basically what they're doing now with you know
0:33.2	trying to give cancer chemical therapies and radiation therapies like yeah it's gonna
0:38.0	suck and like you put it very well Steve like basically we're gonna poison you and we're just hoping that the poison kills the cancer before it kills you.
0:45.0	That's essentially it.

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