IIT Madras Has Revealed How To Cure Cancer 100% In Its New Research

Until now, cancer has been still one of the most difficult-to-cure diseases in the world. Only in 2018, over 9.6 million patients lost their lives for this disease.

Therefore, lots of scientists and researchers all over the world have been researching to find out how to diagnose and treat it most efficiently. Now, that is what IIT Madras researchers are aiming at.

The researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras) has recently made an announcement to reveal their latest research. They placed cancel cells into simulated microgravity in a bid to form large cancel cells that bring characteristics of stem cells. This is a big step in researching how to treat this disease.

Through these cells, we can understand how cancer develops in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (also known as EMT) process. The cancer cells gradually evolve into something similar to stem cells and reform into many different kinds of cells. For example, lung cancer can grow to brain or heart or other internal parts of our bodies.

Finding out how to approach intermediate cancer cells is an important step that can help researchers to study this fatal disease. As we all know, it is not easy to keep cancer stem cells (CSCs) isolated, as well as prevent their growth although they occupy about 1-3% of tumor cells. In other words, there has been some restriction in researching these cancer cells, especially when they appear in animal tissues.

The IIT Madras research is being conducted under the leadership of Professor Rama S Verma who now works at the Stem Cell And Molecular Biology (CMB) Laboratory in Department of Biotechnology of IIT Madras. CSCs take a vital role in cancer research for the following two reasons: first, they contribute to forming tumors, and second, they are one of the major factors that lead to the tumors’ reappearance after patients receive cancer treatment.

The recent findings may help the researchers to get more knowledge about how CSCs turn to tumors from stem cells, how they develop, as well as what are the most feasible treatment methods to actually cure this disease.

IIT Madras’s research has some similarities with the recent research by doctors in Switzerland. In this research, they use drugs to turn CSCs into fat cells in a bid to stop the disease.