A New Hope in Cancer Treatment? Korean Scientists Make a Big Discovery

Could cancer be turned off instead of destroyed? That’s the big question many are now asking after a group of scientists in South Korea made a very exciting discovery. What Did They Find? A team of researchers from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), led by Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho , found a possible new way to treat cancer. Instead of killing cancer cells with strong treatments like chemotherapy or radiation , they found a way to change cancer cells back into normal cells . Yes — they didn’t destroy the cancer cells. They reprogrammed them so they act like healthy cells again. How Did They Do It? The team used a special computer model called a digital twin . This model helped them study how genes inside colon cancer cells work. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI) , they used a program called BENEIN to find the “master switches” in the genes that control whether a cell is healthy or cancerous. When they turned off some of these switche...