Are cancer cells redeemable?

Scientists at KAIST, led by Prof. Kwang-Hyun Cho, have created a groundbreaking therapy that reprograms colon cancer cells to behave like healthy cells rather than destroying them. This innovative approach uses advanced gene modeling to target molecular switches, offering a safer and more effective treatment with minimal damage to healthy tissue. Unlike traditional therapies that focus on killing cancer cells, this new method changes the cancer cells at the molecular level, essentially reversing their harmful behavior. The research, published in Advanced Science, marks a significant step forward in cancer treatment, providing hope for less invasive and more targeted therapies in the future. This breakthrough could lead to more effective cancer treatments with fewer side effects.

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We are often deeply moved by stories where the hero turns around the villain in the end because they refuse to see them as beyond redemption (e.g. Luke Skywalker refusing to give up on Darth Vader and sparing his life, which led him to reject the dark side ultimately.)

This ground-breaking new cancer treatment is just like that. Instead of killing the cancer cells with conventional treatments like chemotherapy or radiation, these Korean scientists are transforming them back to healthy normal cells, potentially avoiding much collateral damage and common side effects in cancer treatment.

Isn't this akin to what God is doing to us? When we humans have deviated from our original design and God-given purposes, running amok in sin and self-absorbedness, our Creator, instead of eradicating us as the problem, chooses to redeem us and transform us from the inside out, giving us a new heart like giving us gene therapy, and reconciling us to himself with his everlasting and self-sacrificial love in Jesus Christ. He wishes not a single person to perish, but everyone turning around to receive his gift of eternal life (2 Peter 3:9; John 3:16).

Hallelujah. Don't our hearts always rejoice and resonate with things that resemble the tune of the Gospel, the one true story underlying all stories?