Singapore, May 22 -- A novel way of activating muscle cells' natural defences against cancer using magnetic pulses.

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Alfredo Franco-Obregon from the NUS Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech) in Singapore, has unveiled a novel approach to stimulate muscle, by way of using brief and mild pulsed electromagnetic field exposure, to produce and release proteins possessing anti-cancer properties.

These soluble chemical molecules can then be carried in the blood stream to all regions of the body for system-wide protection against cancer.

In a previous study, Assoc Prof Franco-Obregon and his team demonstrated that briefly exposing isolated muscle cells to 10 minutes of low-en...