At the post-grad research collaboration called Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), a team has developed a microfluidic device for testing how electric fields influence living cells. The main goal for the technology is to identify the nature of the electric fields that best disrupt the activity of cancer cells, the growth and multiplication of which has been shown in the past to be influenced by external electric fields.
Potentially, there’s a chance that electrodes could be used in the future to simply stop and even kill cancer cells completely from outside the body, but more realistically in a minimally invasive fashion.
