A magnetic method of killing cancer cells has been developed by scientists.
The technique uses a magnetic field to flip a "self-destruct" switch in tumours.
Researchers have demonstrated the process works in bowel cancer cells and living laboratory fish.
Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is one of the body's ways of getting rid of old, faulty or infected cells.
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