Cancer is the second leading of death in the world, with 9.6 million mortalities in 2018, according to the World Health Organization.
Even in the 21st century, we still don't have a 100% cure for cancer, despite the great prospects of several medical research studies around the world.
MIPT
Taking the fight to cancer is another new approach of luminescence therapy, thanks to a new 'glowing protein' developed by scientists at Russia's Moscow Institute Of Physics & Technology. It's taking our final goal to come up with a cure for cancer forward.
In the journal of Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, the team of biophysicists from Russia, Germany and France state that such fluorescent proteins append to other proteins via genetic engineering to make the latter ones visible to the microscope through irradiation and better observable for their behaviour in cells.
Until now, the fluorescent proteins used for such observations had several flaws, which the team of scientists has been able to fix with great distinction, according to their journal report.?
Reuters
According to a PTI report, fluorescence microscopy -- which is what the glowing protein is developed for through re-engineering a bacteria's DNA -- is seen as the best way of investigating the mechanism behind malignant tumour genesis and development which is what cancer is all about, researchers of the revolutionary therapy said.
Not just for cancer study and treatment, luminescence or fluorescence microscopy is also important for studying organ development in the human body.