India, Feb. 7 -- Cancer research has come a long way from killing malignant tumours or stopping the advance of the disease to entirely reversing the state of the cell into normal ones, as illustrated by a breakthrough in a Korean lab ast year.

Building on this work on cancer cell reversal by Korean scientist Kwang-Hyun Cho, a research team led by him has now identified a "switch", a more precise point for such an intervention, according to their new report published in the journal Advanced Science.

Cell fate changes involve abrupt transitions, or "critical transitions", particularly in tumorigenesis. Understanding the molecular regulatory networks underlying these transitions may enable cancer reversion - reprogramming cancer cells to ...