Currently, electrical activity is mainly associated with ‘excited’ brain neurons or heart cells, however, this may not be an isolated event. As the novel research suggests, this communication may enable cells within the same tumor to coordinate cell growth and promote tumor survival. In essence, cancerous cells start behaving more like neurons.
The voltage fluctuations were marked by ‘blinking’ and ‘waving’ electrical signals.
Subsequently, they added a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin to block sodium channels — which are used in the generation of electrical charge in nerve cells. The team conducted further testing by inducing cancer in the healthy cell line before recording them again. As expected, they found that once these cells had become cancerous, the voltage of their membranes was also fluctuating. These electrical signals varied for various cancer types — with the more aggressive and untreatable cancer cells recording more frequent fluctuations.
The implication is also huge. If this private messaging is important to the cancer cells, not just an artifact, it should be possible to JAM the messaging with an appropriate set of frequencies applied across the area, using interactive noise-canceling tricks.
The old electrotherapists were trying various frequencies and currents, and had some success. In the 1920s, at the same time when radio frequency was more finely controllable, the pill-pushers quacked the electrotherapists, so further development was halted. As fucking usual.
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